American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

Little red dots were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) shortly after the spacecraft began collecting ...

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

The exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora moves between history and futurity without settling on a singular ...