A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

NASA has confirmed that operations have begun for its latest space observatory, which is tasked with snapping 3,600 images of ...

Over the years, mathematicians found that the twisted shapes exist in dimensions 2, 6, 14, 30 and 62. They also showed that ...

SPHEREx begins mapping the sky in infrared, exploring the universe’s origins and life’s building blocks across the Milky Way.

A new space telescope is mapping the sky in 102 colors — and it may just rewrite our understanding of the universe.

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

Shocking’ results from a major astronomical study have raised doubts about the standard model of cosmology, forcing ...

"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and ...

Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

An object seen to have moved in the time between when it was imaged by the IRAS and AKARI surveys in 1983 and 2006 ...