Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...

Various stages of planetary formation have already been observed, but not the beginning. That has now changed, thanks to two ...

The pair of galaxies merging into what is now known as the Infinity Galaxy (so named because of its uncanny resemblance to ...

The urban astronomy movement #PopScope has set up telescopes on sidewalks that have brought 26,000 people closer to the night ...

What lies at the edge of the universe?Is there a true boundary,or just more space waiting to be discovered?.Explore the ...

For decades, the Big Bang has been accepted as the definitive explanation for the origin of our universe. But what if ...

Outer space is my Roman Empire: I am on some level obsessing about it whenever I have a free moment. I will devour true stories of discovery and space travel or mind-bending concoctions of science ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the ...

This newborn planetary system is emerging around the young star HOPS-315, which sits some 1,300 light years away from Earth. Around such young stars, astronomers often see discs of gas and dust known ...

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...