They discovered that the host galaxy is incredibly massive — weighing in at over 40 billion times the mass of our Sun — and deeply obscured. The James Webb Space Telescope, which can peer through gas ...

Debate has raged for two decades over whether Pluto should be considered a planet. Some want President Trump to take action ...

Cosmos come in loads of colors that are easy to grow, but these cultivars offer more than the most common varieties: blended ...

A radical idea that resolves many quantum paradoxes suggests there is no objective view of reality. How can the cosmos be stitched together from interlocking perspectives?

A team of astronomers have conducted a study that has lifted the veil on a nearly 100 year mystery that explains an odd dark ...

Science in the modern era is increasingly reliant on enormous datasets and automated analysis. In astronomy, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)—a ten-year survey ...

Astronomy is generating data faster than any single research team can process it, and the instruments responsible are only getting larger. Surveys now routinely produce catalogs measured in billions ...

Today is Pi Day for 2026, the universal celebration of an amazing, mysterious, and irrational mathematical constant. What's ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. It was 2018, and the discovery had just ...

Associate Professor Hanae Inami at the Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center specializes in astronomy, with a particular focus on galaxies beyond the Milky Way — a field known as extragalactic ...