In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has presented data that directly challenges our current ...

Webb's high-resolution instruments uncover distant objects, enabling studies of early stars, galaxies, and habitable ...

Our knowledge of physics — gained through astrophysical experiments, or in laboratories via machines such as particle ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...

Earlier this year, researchers using data from Kitt Peak National Observatory found that dark energy evolves with time. A new ...

THE discovery of the red shift in the spectra of distant stellar galaxies revealed the important fact that our universe is in the state of uniform expansion, and raised an interesting question as ...

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

Combined with Einstein's theory of general relativity, this principle allows us to connect the evolution of the universe —- how it expands or contracts —- to its energy and mass content.

A nearly 100 million-year-old firefly fossilized in amber sheds light on how the bioluminescent insects evolved during the ...