A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

"Even the largest floods we modeled couldn't reach far enough to explain all the rootless cones we see." New data is challenging what scientists previously knew about one of the youngest ...

In an unprecedented milestone for astrophysics, the cubic-kilometer neutrino telescope (KM3NeT), located in the depths of the ...

Quasars are among the oldest, brightest objects in the universe. Formed from active galactic ... explained by a jet pointing toward us—a cone in which particles are transported up to a million ...

The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly debated—results had shown: The universe is expanding faster than predicted ...