The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Bob McDonald celebrates LIGO ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

Ta-da! The lights were on. But because there's so much murk in the cosmic dawn, and because it's so dim and far away across time and space, we've had trouble seeing what's there. Scientists thought ...

It wasn’t until Albert Einstein that we developed a more sophisticated mathematical understanding of time and space that allowed physicists to probe deeper into the connections between them. In their ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

Late October offers a meteor shower generated by Haley's Comet plus a once in a lifetime comet that streaks by Earth every ...

Astronomy enthusiasts in Staten Island and the New York metropolitan area are in for a celestial treat on Oct. 8, 2025, as ...

Time and space-time Of course, scientists want to understand how we experience time in mathematical terms that can be tested through experiments. In relativity, the three dimensions of physical space ...