Starfleet Academy and its characters perfectly embody one of Captain Sisko's greatest quotes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Astronomers say a fleeting burst of energy from deep space may be the earliest supernova ever observed. The discovery is ...

While the James Webb Space Telescope provides a window into the ancient universe, SkyMapper focuses on the present by ...

Scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is relatively flat, but in terms of the cosmos’s global topography, uncertainty reigns. A new study from an international scientific ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

When analyzing early universe data, the Standard Model of Cosmology suggests that the universe should be more “clumpy” that ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

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Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a ...

By studying ripples in space-time, physicists are testing wheather dark energy might stem from hidden dimensions, elusive ...

Astronomers use powerful telescopes, often housed at observatories, to peer into the farthest depths of our universe. To do this successfully, observatories often have to be placed at high elevations, ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with data ...