Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

Gold and platinum are found in space, created when two stars collide. Astrophysicists can even trace this process further back, to the merger of galaxies.

A dying star’s final breath creates a haunting, brain-shaped cosmic silhouette.

In the 1950s, a London taxi driver claimed he received a message from outer space. His name was George King, and according to him, the message was not a warning or a threat, but a revelation. Humans ...

A new study has estimated the universe’s possible age by using precise data on stars.

Michael S Turner argues that the next breakthrough in particle physics and cosmology may be just around the corner.

Everyone knows Yuri Gagarin as the first person to go to space. But was he? Literary historian Vladimir Brljak tells the tale of the intrepid balloonists who first flew beyond the blue terrestrial sky ...

After bringing Ridley Scott's sci-fi franchise to TV, FX's Alien: Earth is set to begin filming Season 2 soon according to Sydney Chandler.

A new study suggests that "little red dots" spied by the James Webb telescope could be the universe's short-lived first ...

An intriguing religious issue is raised by an odd space-age colloquy in mid-February between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Out of the blue, political podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen asked Obama, “Are ...

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology. This feature describes how one of the most important variables in cosmology, the expansion of the universe, takes on ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured PMR 1 in Vela using NIRCam and MIRI, revealing structural layers, stellar winds, and evolutionary details of a planetary nebula.