Lightspeed travel is a popular concept in sci-fi and pop culture, but it's not a technology we are likely to see anytime soon ...

While the Hubble Space Telescope orbits Earth, the JWST orbits the sun with a keener eye for peering into deep space. “It’s more of a complement to the Hubble than it is a replacement,” said Andrew ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

British writer Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for fiction with “Orbital,” a short, wonder-filled novel set aboard ...

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astrophysicists developed a theoretical model that could be used to estimate how likely it is for intelligent life to emerge ...

Scientists are working on an accurate way of calculating the probability of finding alien life elsewhere in the universe.