NPR's Short Wave talks about elephants' sniffing abilities, the remarkable migration of painted lady butterflies and a ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

Radio telescopes are instruments that capture faint radio signals from space and convert them into images of celestial bodies ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will ...

Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old ...

Astronomers have observed a spiral galaxy spraying vast jets of superheated gas like a cosmic sprinkler, revealing how ...

Using the Subaru Telescope’s wide-field camera, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown structure surrounding a tiny ...