The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.

Just 200 light-years from the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, a region called Sagittarius C has puzzled astronomers.

Isaac Newton changed the way we understand the Universe. Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view.

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

If this scenario plays out, “the world as we know it would collapse like a house of cards,” says one theoretical physicist.

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

The potential finds could be contributing to some of the faintest light we can see in the universe, say researchers.

Researchers mapped a far-infrared landscape brimming with nearly 2,000 galaxies. There may be "hidden galaxies" lurking just out of sight.