An analysis of millions of galaxies found that the universe is barreling towards what is literally a much darker future.

The Euclid telescope launched in 2023, hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 to study the cosmos from the Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2, 1.5 million kilometers (932,000 miles) from Earth. Its job is a big ...

The universe is expanding. That much is clearer. But it’s less clear whether this expansion is accelerating or slowing down. At the heart of this upheaval lies the cosmic yardstick astronomers have ...

Space looks very dark from Earth. But does the solar system, and the universe for that matter, have an area that's the ...

The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics ...

Exploring one of science’s most exciting frontiers, Life in Space bridges astrophysics and biology to uncover the conditions that make life possible — on Earth and beyond. Designed for students and ...

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...

A new study published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that the universe’s expansion may be ...

The Goddard Space Center is one NASA's crown jewels of science. But in recent months, staff say they've been in the White House's crosshairs, subjected to a campaign of chaos and reorganization.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has received a record-breaking number of proposals for its fifth observation cycle. Only 8% ...