Experts emphasize that the cosmic microwave background is shaped by everything it encounters on its journey, including ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

Scientists have detected the highest-energy ghost particle neutrino ever, but did it come from a supermassive black hole ...

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Einstein rings help scientists study dark matter and cosmic expansion. Euclid will find thousands more lenses to map the ...

Gravitational lensing occurs when the gravity of a massive object, like a galaxy, warps the fabric of spacetime, bending the light from a more distant background object.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Leader, columnist Orville Moe, writer of “In a science-minded world, a reason to thank God,” says: “… thank God for all his gifts to us on this small and insignificant planet ...