If you own a small backyard telescope, there's a good chance you've seen the Cigar Galaxy (M82) with your own eyes. Not only ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant, 500-light-year-wide cavity between two star-forming regions in the constellations Perseus and Taurus. An ancient supernova could be the culprit.

Step into the future with a calm walk through one of the most modern areas in Shenzhen, China. Surrounded by clean streets, ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how galaxies formed in the early universe.

Spacetime isn’t something that exists; it’s a model for describing how events happen. Treating events as objects creates philosophical confusion and fuels misconceptions, such as time-travel paradoxes ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Hawaii, marks the third recorded interstellar object, following the discoveries of ...

One aspect that worked so well about Farscape is that across four seasons of eighty-eight episodes, the show amazingly melded the stakes of an epic space opera with an episodic sci-fi series. The plot ...

In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

In the eastern morning sky, Venus is being swallowed by the rising sun’s glare. Taking Venus’s place this month is Arcturus, the brilliant star in kite-shaped Bootes, the herdsman. Meanwhile, Jupiter ...