It is very difficult to imagine the Universe as anything other than a perfectly balanced system, but now everything indicates that it could have a highly asymmetrical nature. This is a whole lot more ...

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Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has been helping scientists explore the cosmos for years now, but there are still plenty of ...

Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also ...

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With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...

SETI's 1977 "Wow!" signal from deep space was even stronger than originally thought, but its source remains a complete ...

James Webb Space Telescope data reveals chemical evidence of massive early stars, offering clues about the formation of supermassive black holes ...

While alien hunting is often associated with tinfoil hats and flying saucers, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...