A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

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A groundbreaking study from Radboud University suggests the universe may end in approximately 10^78 years, significantly earlier than the previously assumed 10^1100 years. By revisiting Hawking ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Wonder Bound, the product of a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University, the Space Telescope Science Institute, and the ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

The final integration of the telescope's major observatory components took place on Nov. 25 inside NASA's Goddard Space ...

A consortium of American scientists and engineers filed a report that stridently makes the case for putting boots down on ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...