There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

Kiwi startup OpenStar's bold move to use levitating dipole reactor for fusion achieved a key milestone with its first plasma.

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...