NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which launched in March 2025, is poised to transform our understanding of the universe. By creating ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Advances and the arrival of new technologies have allowed astronomy, the science that studies celestial bodies and phenomena ...

Imagine gazing at the cosmos, not through a telescope, but immersed in a vivid journey that transports you to the farthest ...

The object 9.1 billion light-years away, named FRB 20230521B, now holds the record for the most distant FRB ever recorded.

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

Women, especially women of color, remain underrepresented in STEM careers. Marvel's new series "Ironheart" is highlighting the importance of representation, and Chicago is part of that inspiration.

In the spiritual tradition, the Torah is often described as the most comprehensive source of divine energy and wisdom. It is ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern ...