Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has done it again. In the depths of our early Universe, it has uncovered something unexpected—300 mysterious objects that astronomers can’t yet fully explain. This ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — By picking up the tiny vibrations of thermal energy that exist naturally in all objects, researchers at the University of Illinois have performed ultrasonic measurements without ...

In 1932, a new set of eyes on the universe were opened thanks to an accidental discovery by Karl Jansky. The young engineer from Bell Laboratories in the U.S., was looking for the source of static ...