In a special episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast to start 2025, we've brought together three science editors from The ...

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, it has hundreds of billions of stars, enough gas and dust to make billions more stars, and at least ten times as much dark matter as all the stars ... the Milky Way just ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower will be the year's first chance to see fireballs in the sky. Here's what to know about the ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of reionization. It holds clues to the first stars and galaxies, and perhaps the nature ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope contradict traditional theories about early galaxy formation, revealing ...

Credit: NASA. Dark energy is central to our modern understanding of cosmology ... When we look out across the billions of ...

The space firm founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos has a powerful rocket called New Glenn that may at last get off the ground in ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to study NGC 1052-DF2 — a galaxy that is lacking dark matter. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center ...

NSF NOIRLab rings in the New Year with a glittering galaxyscape captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy ...

Some stargazers are calling it a planetary parade: Every other planet in our solar system can be seen in the sky tonight.

Scientists are challenging the existence of dark energy with a new model called "timescape," which suggests the Universe's ...