These events were found to produce heavy elements like gold and platinum. But recent research suggests there might be another player in this cosmic game: magnetars. Neutron stars are the dense ...

The question of where gold comes from in the universe has baffled scientists for years - but now researchers believe they ...

The space-based observatory will scan the cosmos in 102 colors we can't see to unlock the secret history of the universe.

Pointed away from Earth about 404 miles overhead, the orbital observatory will circle the planet from north to south about 14 ...

NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory has officially begun its science operations following its March 11 launch and six weeks of calibrations. This mission is mapping the entire sky in 3D, tracking ...

At the time of the Big Bang, the universe contained only the lightest elements: hydrogen, helium, and a dash of lithium.

It’s a pretty fundamental question in terms of the origin of complex matter in the universe,” Anirudh Patel said in a NASA ...

In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have found an extremely ancient galaxy piercing through a thick blanket of ...