Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked ...

The largest known exoplanet has seven times the radius of Jupiter, 752 times its mass, and would take five months to ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

Astronomers observed the fading light of supernova SN 2025kg, which followed the fast X-ray transient (FXT) named EP 250108a.

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

(Nanowerk News) In a new analysis, physicists provide the most precise picture yet of how neutrinos change ‘flavor’ as they travel through the cosmos. Neutrinos are fundamental particles of the ...