Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

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The invisible stuff makes up about 85 percent of all matter in the universe, but researchers know little about it ...

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InterstellOr is already taking bookings for its planned suborbital flights and says it has attracted its first celebrity ...

What actually happens to a spacecraft during its fiery last moments? That's the key question for the European Space Agency's Draco mission, planned for 2027.

Published in Nature Astronomy, the study details how Webb's infrared instruments charted nearly 800,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field. The data reveal how dark matter – ...

The first emergency operation in the history of China's human spaceflight program ended on Jan. 19 when an uncrewed Shenzhou 20 capsule damaged by a space-junk strike came safely down to Earth.

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...