When you look up at the night sky, it seems deep black with bright stars scattered across it. That familiar view leads many ...

Scientists Spot a Deep-Space Object That Shouldn’t Exist ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

Explore the compelling evidence behind the universe's expansion in this insightful video. Learn about the key scientific observations, including redshift, supernovae, and cosmic microwave background ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest that even extremely massive gas giants — once thought too large to form like ordinary planets — may grow ...

Hawaiʻi Island’s largest astronomy education program, Journey Through the Universe, hosted its 22nd year of classroom visits, career panels, and community events in Hilo last week.

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

Two ways of measuring how fast the universe is expanding disagree, a puzzle known as the Hubble tension. Tiny magnetic fields ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered galaxies colliding in the early universe, revealing that cosmic structures are far more complicated than astronomers once ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest that organic molecules are much more common outside our galaxy than ...

On a clear night, the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy look like close neighbors. In space, they really are.

York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an understanding of dark matter.