The first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of the galaxy M61 that may explain ...

First image from Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of galaxy M61 that may explain its mysterious ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed a 520-million-year-old fossil with an intact brain and nerves, ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

Astronomers have released a spectacular new image of the Milky Way, providing a glimpse of our galaxy in unprecedented detail ...