The universe is haunted by "cosmic ghosts" called neutrinos, which seem to be the "whispers" of stars that died in supernova ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. In the late 1990s, two independent teams, the ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...

When massive stars die, they unleash some of the most powerful explosions in the universe. Yet not all supernovae are created ...

The two large spiral arms of the Milky Way may be about 10% further from Earth than previously thought. The new measurements ...

For decades, physicists have searched for one of the faintest signals in the cosmos: a background of neutrinos released by ...

A strange "chirping" signal from a distant supernova has revealed the birth of a magnetar, confirming that these incredibly magnetic neutron stars can power the universe's brightest stellar explosions ...

Scientists found a surprising link between intermittent fasting, chronic stress, and brain health in a new animal study.

Astronauts want to light it up on the moon — for science. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as part of its ...

NASA prepares a robotic mission to rescue the aging Swift telescope before orbital decay brings the observatory back to Earth ...

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence powered simulation that could significantly improve our understanding of how the universe ...