Step back 1000 years, look up at the night sky and you might notice some extra dots of light compared with today. Back then, Chinese astronomers called these “guest stars” and believed them to be ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

The Webb space telescope pushes boundaries of observable universe closer to Big Bang. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has topped itself once again, delivering on its promise t ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.

WUWM astronomy contributor Jean Creighton discusses cosmology ahead of "Birth of the Universe" at UWM's Manfred Olson Planetarium.

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland has produced the first ...

Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.

"JADES-ID1 is giving us new evidence that the universe was in a huge hurry to grow up." ...

It's an out-of-this-world opportunity for middle schoolers in Clifton Park and Halfmoon -- literally.