When a student first learns how a simple equation can explain the motion of planets or the behaviour of light, it sparks more than academic interest--it awakens a lifelong curiosity about how the ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, scientists have discovered that the ...

Photographers capture mutant crayfish, cleaning fish, and synchronized whales in this year's top underwater contests.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

As gas falls toward a black hole, it heats up and shines. If the glow becomes intense enough, it can push incoming gas away. Astronomers call this balancing point the Eddington limit, and for decades ...

Here are the eight best museums in Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago is the kind of place people think they’ll stop by ...

Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

NASA’s most powerful probe, the James Webb Space Telescope spotted the farthest galaxy ever recorded, making a historic milestone in cosmology. The task was earlier speculated to be next to impossible ...

Researchers using a synchrotron at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have been able to recover pieces of the ...