A year of discovery awaits, with missions poised to reveal new insights about our home planet, solar system, galaxy, and ...

Carbon, the essential building block of life, has a remarkable origin story. Nearly all elements beyond hydrogen and helium, ...

Learn about the size, temperature, and colour of each planet, and discover why Pluto is no longer considered a planet.

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 ...

Life on Earth could not exist without carbon. But carbon itself could not exist without stars. Nearly all elements except ...

Carbon, essential for life, journeys through space in a galactic recycling process, fueling star and planet formation.

Hubble made no claims about a creator, but his discoveries and the wonder they evoke have prompted others to reconsider ‘the ...

Taken with some major cosmic help, it shows one of the first galaxies to form after the beginning of the universe, almost 14 ...

NSF NOIRLab has begun the New Year by unveiling a remarkable deep-space image of the Antlia Cluster. The image was captured with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which is mounted on the Víctor M.

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...