SCIENCE

A tremendous revolution has occurred in the past four decades concerning our ultimate cosmic origins. While the Big Bang still plays…

We normally conceive of our Universe as having emerged from a preceding period of cosmic inflation, with our Big Bang occurring…

Although the Spitzer space telescope’s infrared views could reveal many features, such as the warped disk, within the Sombrero galaxy, the…

This moving, zipping star field appears to depict an ultra-relativistic motion through space, extremely close to the speed of light. Under…

In July of 1969, humanity took our first steps on the surface of another world: the Moon. This was the crowning…

This selection of the Andromeda galaxy comes courtesy of the largest photomosaic ever assembled with Hubble Space Telescope data. There’s an…

The full-field image of MACS J0717.5+3745 shows many thousands of galaxies in four separate sub-clusters within the large cluster. The blue…

This illustration shows a star, an orbiting exoplanet, and a cloud (or tail) of debris that emanates off of the exoplanet…

Here in our own Solar System, we have at least three notable large, terrestrial-sized bodies with impressive lunar systems of their…

This map shows the global temperatures in each region of Earth for the year 2024, relative to the average recorded temperature…