In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images ...

On the outskirts of the Milky Way, one of the rarest kinds of stars in the galaxy has just become even more mysterious than ...

Discover the explosive power of hypernovas, the universe's most catastrophic star deaths. Explore how these rare, intense ...

Studies of the solar system are advancing by leaps and bounds, especially to try to avoid, or at least know about, episodes ...

Children's single-day tickets (ages 3 to 9) start at $134 per day. The single-day tickets are available to visit Epic Universe starting June 1, according to Universal Orlando. Two-day ticket ...

A slowly spinning universe could resolve a puzzle in physics known as the Hubble tension, a new model suggests.

A faint cosmic spin – one rotation per 500 billion years – could resolve the stubborn Hubble tension by tweaking standard ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

Astronomers have tracked a mysterious magnetar, SGR 0501+4516, across the Milky Way, revealing it may not have formed in a ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

Its proximity to the supernova remnant HB9 once suggested a supernova birth. However, with only 80 arcminutes separating them ...

Our sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far the most abundant elements, formed in the ...