The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy known as the Hubble tension.

Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.

Space scientist Maggie Aderin talks telescopes, neurodiversity and being underestimated with Rowan Hooper on the New Scientist podcast, as her memoir Starchild comes out ...

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at ...

The more we discover about the universe, particularly its genesis, the more evidence we have pointing to the need for God.

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

Notations made in the margins of a 16th century edition of Ptolemy’s The Almagest were likely scrawled by an auspicious author: Galileo Galilei Handwriting analysis determined that the famed ...

The comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, putting it just under 2 billion years the age of the universe.

So, it came as a shock to many people when, in 1781, it was announced that a seventh planet, the first to be discovered since ...

Yet what we can see with our eyes, or even with powerful telescopes, when these stars die, is only a tiny fraction of the ...