The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born inside the extreme stellar explosion.

"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...

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Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...

Screenwriter Drew Goddard rejoined "The Martian" writer Andy Weir and fought to preserve the author's vision: "Whenever you're doing anything that feels bold or different, people are going to push ...

Nearly 60 years after NASA sent the first humans to ever land on our moon, the U.S. is going back with a series of ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

The night sky appears perfectly still, but the universe is constantly changing in ways the human eye cannot see. By combining ...

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The observatory aims to answer a number of questions about the universe by studying different phenomena in the sky, including supernovae (exploding stars), asteroids, dark matter and the properties of ...