On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

New simulations suggest dark matter could explain the mysterious gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center. The findings show that the galaxy’s early mergers may have shaped dark matter in a way that ...

A mysterious glow at the center of our galaxy has astronomers scratching their heads. The phenomenon, recently analyzed in ...

They're important to scientists because they're the chemical precursors to the molecules that build life, such as amino acids ...

Some astronomers believe the source of the glow to be pulsars — the spinning leftovers of exploded stars — while others point ...

Three photographers were able to capture the red sprite phenomenon, when lightning flashes above thunderstorms, in high ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

Astronomers think the Milky Way could be part of a structure much larger than we believed. If that is true, parts of our ...

This is your rundown on the latest breaking news in space. We’ve got updates on everything from auroras to black holes, plus ...

It's a fitting portrait of the facility that will soon transform our understanding of the dynamic universe by capturing ...

These are some remote places here where you can get away from the bright lights on the ground and focus on the ones above.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...