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As viewed by the MeerKAT telescope, this radio view of the Milky Way blows away every other way we’ve ever seen our home galaxy.

A 5,300-year-old mummy teaches us the global history of tattoos.

The unconventional method could help astronomers better track meteorites that fall during the daytime.

Philosophers and scientists spent millennia arguing about the nature of light. It turned out to be stranger than anyone imagined.

There are only 3 populations of stars, but “generations” is a more complex question. When we look out at the stars in the Universe, we classify them into three different […]

Both made monumental contributions that were far ahead of their time. It’s hard to believe, but the idea that the Universe was dominated not by normal matter but rather by dark […]

If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.

Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.

Portraiture is one of the most intimate genres in all of painting, and it has reinvented itself many times across European history.

These bizarre mollusks have the ability to regenerate their bodies and to absorb other organisms’ attributes.

From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?

The most massive nearby stars could be the seeds our supermassive black holes need. The problem with the Universe, as we see it today, is that we only get a snapshot […]

The upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is the event of a lifetime.

Since the time of Galileo, Saturn’s rings have remained an unexplained mystery. A new idea may have finally solved the longstanding puzzle.

It could be the most spectacular annular eclipse of the decade.

We just found a system that we can’t explain. Here’s what’s going on. One of the most fascinating facts about the Universe is that there’s so much of it out there. […]

Why does dark matter, if it doesn’t dissipate energy, become gravitationally bound at all? One of the most puzzling components of the Universe has to be dark matter. Although we have […]

Just because you have “star” in your name doesn’t mean you are one. When we think about the objects in our Universe, they fall into two categories: self-luminous objects, like stars, […]

A new survey, the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, has found more lenses than all others put together. One of Einstein’s most revolutionary predictions is that mass bends light. During a […]

The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.

Scientists find routes using arches of chaos that can lead to much faster space travel.

Want some crazy space phenomena? You don’t have to leave the neighborhood for it.

Researchers hypothesize that these exoplanets could support the development of alien life.

New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe.

For the first time in many years, there’s currently a comet visible to the naked eye in Earth’s night sky: comet NEOWISE. For the first time in many years, there’s currently […]

If we succeed in contacting them, will that seal humanity’s doom? One of the most wondrous questions of all concerns our place in the Universe. After 13.8 billion years of […]

Every observation out into deep space is also a look back in time. Whenever you observe an object, you aren’t viewing it in its present state. When one of Jupiter’s moons […]

Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.

Wind energy is one of the cleanest, greenest sources of power. But could it have the sneaky side-effect of changing the weather?

Even with only 12.5 hours of exposure time, James Webb’s first deep-field image taught us lessons we’ve never realized before.