Thirty-one newly discovered ancient quasars are giving scientists their clearest view yet of the universe's earliest giant ...

Orion is about as familiar as a patch of sky gets. Visible without a telescope, studied by nearly every major instrument ever ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island confirmed two-thirds — or 21 of 31 — of the most ancient quasars identified by the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission, ...

NexFuture (July 11, 2026) — In a monumental breakthrough for astrophysics, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space ...

Researchers at Stanford University found that AI is also transforming scientific discovery by helping scientists to analyse complex data, generate hypotheses and formulate experiments faster than old ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study UFOs, or unidentified ...

ROME—Stealth submarines fitted with space-shooting lasers, supply-chain sabotage and custom-built attack satellites armed ...

The solar system sits inside a vast pocket of hot, thin gas. However, that nearby structure has never looked especially ...

Long March 10B is the first Chinese reusable, orbital-grade rocket that has achieved a safe landing. In this inaugural flight ...

Shanghai has become one of the focal points of that effort. The city has sharply increased spending on basic research in ...

A star located about 1,300 light-years from Earth shows signs of having devoured one of its planets — and is now gearing up ...

New measurements suggest that two of the Milky Way's spiral arms are around 10% farther away from Earth than we thought. The ...