Earlier this year, astronomers revealed one of the James Webb Space Telescope's most spectacular and intriguing discoveries yet — and that's saying something. Lying in one of the most ancient regions ...

Ancient Egyptian civilization was complex, stratified, and highly organized. Specialized professions quickly emerged to allow ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, has long intrigued scientists. Since its discovery in 1801 by astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi, experts have debated what this giant, crater-covered object ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, may hold a substantial amount of water ice beneath its surface, like an ...

AI-assisted research nearly doubles the number of known Nazca geoglyphs, ancient symbols formed in the ground by moving stones or gravel that date back 2,000 years.

The team that studied this event identified an Earth-like exoplanet and an object 17 times larger than Jupiter (most likely a ...

Three active galactic nuclei from the early universe were found in just a small patch of sky. How many more could there have ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant plasma jets streaming from a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. At a ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

A "totally new phenomenon" has been discovered by astronomers in a strange galaxy from the dawn of time ... The researchers modeled the bizarre light signature from the newly discovered ancient galaxy ...

In a recent paper, a prominent philosopher argues that increased belief in alien visitation is fast becoming a widespread ...

While looking for the universe's first stars, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered an ancient galaxy where the stars ...