Deep Space Just Revealed a Mysterious Object Astronomers Can’t Explain ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Astronomers say a fleeting burst of energy from deep space may be the earliest supernova ever observed. The discovery is ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging long-held ideas about how galaxies and cosmic giants formed.

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way. That means ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...

In a world that often measures itself in days, years, decades and centuries, a second seems insignificant. But a lot can happen in an instant. It takes a lightning bolt just 30 microseconds to strike ...

NASA's ambitious mission to return astronauts to the moon for the first time this century is on track to launch no later than April 2026, but it just might fly sooner if all goes well. Final tests of ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen.