Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered surprisingly large and bright early galaxies. This discovery challenges the ...

Although Persona veteran Katsura Hashino directed Metaphor: ReFantazio as a fantasy JRPG in the end, the developers spent some time envisioning the game as something very different, once considering a ...

Argonne National Laboratory’s Aurora supercomputer is the fastest in the world, capable of a quintillion calculations per ...

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

One of the largest known stars, UY Scuti is a red supergiant with a radius 1,700 times that of the Sun, located 9,500 light-years away. Known as “Herschel’s Garnet Star” due to its red hue, Mu Cephei ...

This classic carnivore has jaw-like traps that snap shut on unsuspecting insects, digesting them with enzymes. Found mainly in North Carolina, it’s one of the best-known predatory plants. With tubular ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...