NASA's SPHEREx telescope unveiled its first full-sky map of the universe, combining more than 100 infrared observations into ...

Way out there in the asteroid belt is an object that's spinning so fast, scientists are surprised it hasn't flown apart.

Over its planned two-year mission, the $488 million telescope will scan the entire night sky every six months and collect ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe.

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...

Scientists have identified a strange cosmic relic called Cloud-9 — a starless, gas-filled object dominated by dark matter.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Observations of ultra-massive galaxies, each containing more than 100 billion stars, show that less than 2 billion years ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered an enormous, fast-spinning asteroid that sets a new record.

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Astronomers sweeping through the archive of NASA's James Webb Telescope found a group of galaxies with an unknown combination ...