NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a young cosmic entity that may resemble the Milky ...
The new images, to be presented at an upcoming meeting of the American Physical Society, date back to when the universe was ...
Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...
Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.
Two independent groups of scientists have detected oxygen in the farthest known galaxy just 300 million years after the Big ...
A new study by Dr. Margherita Mussi, published in Quaternary International, highlights how naturally occurring basalt spheres ...
New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...
The trailblazing Harvard scientist, who documented the dominance of hydrogen and helium in stars, is still inspiring ...
Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...
Cherry Springs State Park sits quietly in Potter County, an 82-acre pocket of darkness that’s become the astronomy enthusiast’s equivalent of finding a golden ticket to Wonka’s factory. While millions ...
At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...
The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...