The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explored by looking deeply into the open star ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped scientists search the sky for supermassive black holes—those up to billions of times heavier than the sun. The new survey is unique because it was as likely to ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope is preparing for launch in 2027, with a mission to study distant galaxies and explore dark ...

Over 40 stars in a galaxy billions of light-years away were photographed, offering a glimpse into an era when the universe ...

With 10 instruments and technology tests, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload ...

The research group observed a galaxy nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth; when the universe was half its current age.

Could time itself actually explain our universe's expansion? Our current cosmological model—known as lambda cold dark matter, ...

By looking at light from distant exploding stars called supernovas, in 1998 astronomers discovered the universe isn’t just ...

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb telescope to make the 'record-breaking' space discovery, where they spotted more than 40 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...