The universe is vast, a size beyond what many of our imaginations can deal with, but modern technology helps shine a light.

astronomers at the Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of possible dwarf planet 2018 VG18, the farthest known ...

Where do fast radio bursts (FRBs) come from and how do they form? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Only indirect traces remain.” The location of galaxy GN-z11, one of the farthest galaxies ever seen, with an inset image from the ... [+] Hubble Space Telescope. Cue JWST’s images of one of ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

Astronomers discovered the exoplanet in 2016, a gas giant that’s slightly larger than Jupiter with a fraction of its mass, ...

The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of ... extremely distant aphelion (farthest point in orbit ...

Imagine hearing the familiar sounds of birds not from the lush rainforest, but from the void of deep space. This is what NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites have astonishingly captured – ...

Space exploration also helps us understand the building blocks of the universe by studying cosmic phenomena like black holes, ...