A flash of radio waves from a young galaxy 3 billion years after the Big Bang is lighting up 80% of the universe’s history.

World Space Week 2026 celebrates reusable rockets and wider access to space, while urging responsible exploration, protection ...

Sometimes the best discoveries are hiding in old data. By reviewing archival records from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers spotted a strange chemical signature around a white dwarf star named ...

Space news headlines feature lots of SpaceX: crewed launches to the International Space Station, satellite launches, tests of the Super Heavy booster and Starship spacecraft. The way my least favorite ...

An undergraduate astrophysics student at UC Berkeley has found three unusual galaxies—cataloged as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, ...

"What Hubble is showing us in this white dwarf system is something we haven’t seen before," said astronomer Jamie Williams.

Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Sydney Kamlager-Dove and Ted Lieu, all of California, are co-sponsors, and Carnegie Science has endorsed the measure, Chu’s office said in a press release. Chu co-chairs the ...

Scientists have debated for decades whether the human brain sprouts new neurons throughout life. What would it mean if it could — and how much evidence is enough?

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics recognizes Francis Halzen’s vision in building an unusual telescope in Antarctica, as well as ...

Scientists studying a distant white dwarf star say the star may host a second-generation planet formed from cast-off material ...

The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble observations. Will it find the answers to our questions about ...

The 2026 physics Nobel honors Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen, whose IceCube observatory can detect ...