Whether we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world is a much-debated theory, challenging previous thinking about ...

A year ago, in celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s legendary Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Also known as Messier 76 ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...

Credit: Yuri Milner. Global divisions and existential challenges threaten humanity's progress at precisely the moment when ...

The Hubble tension, a long-standing puzzle in cosmology, arises from conflicting measurements of the universe’s expansion ...

Could the universe be rotating at an imperceptible speed? An extremely slow rotation, occurring once every 500 billion years, ...

Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it ...

Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) achieved the first direct laboratory observation of ...

"It's amazing that after 35 years, Hubble still holds a unique capability as a top workhorse for science discoveries and ...

Scientists may have finally found the universe’s missing matter - hidden in invisible hydrogen gas far beyond galaxies.