These cosmic filaments contain 12 trillion solar masses of 10-million-degree gas, helping solve the "missing matter" mystery.

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the ...

Scientists are peering into the universe's mysterious Cosmic Dawn using the faint whispers of hydrogen radio waves emitted over 13 billion years ago. These signals, particularly the elusive ...

Weird Life Found Trapped in Giant Underground Crystals. Floating in pockets of fluid, the microbes are likely new to science and may be up to 50,000 years old, a NASA researcher says.

The biosignatures were rooted in tentative detections, and this sparked debate amongst astronomers, who were skeptical about ...