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An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

The evocative scene captures the swirling gas of the nebula Sh2-132, known as the Lion Nebula, located around 10,000 ...

A striking reality faces modern cosmology: two of the most advanced telescopes ever built now agree on a result that the standard cosmological model cannot explain. Webb’s confirmation of the Hubble ...

For years, we’ve been told that black holes are the ultimate cosmic vacuum cleaners. Once something crosses its event horizon ...

James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) noticed an infrared flare from the Milky Way's supermassive black ...

It's been one Neptunian year—or about 165 Earth years—since astronomers first observed the most distant planet from the sun.

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...

Space-watchers, hold on to your telescopes. The interstellar visitor we’ve all been buzzing about just threw a curveball.

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

The government shutdown is over. But hundreds of thousands of federal workers are coming back after 43 days to anything but normalcy, employees from across the country told CNN.

As twilight deepens the week of November 24 to 28, the waxing crescent moon appears in the south to southwest, above the setting Teapot asterism.