From surreal abstract art to fantastical dreamscapes, these wallpapers aren’t just images ... ocean where waves of stars ...

Since its launch, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified early galaxies that shine unexpectedly brightly, suggesting ...

The VLT Survey Telescope captured a spooktacular image of a nebula that looks like a dark wolf in the sky just in time for ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...

Our most powerful telescopes have revealed that the cosmos is surprisingly simple on the largest visible scales. Likewise, ...

Euclid this week delivered the first piece of a cosmic map — containing about 100 million stars and galaxies — that will take six years to create. These stunning 3D observations may help ...

An overabundance of antimatter in showers of charged particles that bombard Earth called cosmic rays could reveal the secrets of dark matter, the universe's most mysterious "stuff," a new study ...

where they can be scattered or absorbed during interactions with photons of the ubiquitous cosmic background radiation. All this means that astrophysicists have, for the first time, gained the ...

These objects are thought to be a source of galactic cosmic rays, the origins of which are currently a mystery. Understanding how this microquasar works could also help researchers learn more ...

GLASSBORO, New Jersey (WPVI) -- If you've looked to the skies at dusk over the last few days, you may have seen a rare surprise. This is why astronomer Eddie Guerra is preparing for a comet ...

"This discovery presents a challenge: our cosmic surveys may not yet be large enough to map the full extent of these immense basins," study co-author Ehsan Kourkchi, an astronomer at the ...