Some discoveries make you stop and stare. The Nebra Sky Disc is one of them. Unearthed in Germany, this 3,800-year-old bronze ...

The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

A range of gorgeous skywatching targets are visible to the naked eye in city skies.

Published in Nature Astronomy, the new map uses fresh observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, aimed at a well-studied ...

Launched on 1 July 2025 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, MTG-S operates from a geostationary orbit, about 36 000 km above Earth’s surface and is able to ...

Findings allow scientists to learn more about dark matter’s influence on stars, galaxies, and planets ...

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they may not have considered before.

SLAC researchers used X-ray beams and the particle accelerator to recover the work of an ancient astronomer, who made the earliest known attempt to log the stars.