The farthest fast radio burst yet came from a tiny, young galaxy, a clue that magnetars may set off at least some of these ...

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Astronomers have traced the most distant fast radio burst ever found, a mysterious cosmic flash that traveled across 10 ...

Exoplanet observations reveal that Earth-like rocky planets require a certain concentration of those heavier elements.

The universe may be 13.8 billion years old, but there’s still plenty we don’t understand about the cosmos. A researcher ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a ...

A single photograph taken from orbit has managed to make a rare visual connection between the mundane life on Earth and the vastness of the universe outside. Framed from the International Space ...

On March 26, 2025, an international team of astronomers using the Webb space telescope said they’ve identified bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in an unexpectedly early time in the universe’s ...

On Jan. 28, 2026, NASA announced that its James Webb Space Telescope had spotted its furthest detectable galaxy to date. The announcement marks the closest astronomers have come to studying the early ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear peaceful. This is not universally ...