NASA's SPHEREx is exploring the galaxies to answer the question of where we all come from while sending back jaw-dropping ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths. The space observatory, named after a North Carolina native, ...

Even before the first stars lit up the Universe, the Cosmos was not the cold place most researchers once imagined. New ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

Elon Musk has counted previous flight tests as successes. Scientists at UT Austin claim the first provable quantum supremacy, showing a 12-qubit system beat classical computers—paving the way for real ...

Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones.

You’ll see some irregular galaxies that look like nothing, and some barred spirals that look like everything. Along the way, ...

For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of ...

Calculating the total mass of the universe is not simple, because most of the mass is invisible. In a pie chart of the contents of the universe, only 5 percent is normal matter, atoms that make up all ...

Photoshop CC 2014 tutorial showing how to quickly create a vast star field and a celestial sphere amid faraway galaxies and ...