Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected. It is located in a violently merging galaxy more than 8 billion ...

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...

A rare gravitationally lensed supernova called SN 2025wny appears in five separate images due to the gravity of two ...

“The Euclid data clearly confirm the presence of the extremely faint, diffuse light of CDG-2, revealing the galaxy behind the ...

This new series from India Today Science explores the why and how behind everyday phenomena we notice, question, and often ...

The galaxy has been given the name MoM z14, short for what researchers describe as the “mother of all early galaxies.” Its distance slightly surpasses the previous record holder, a galaxy known as ...

A subtle gravitational-wave “hum” from merging black holes may help settle the cosmic fight over how fast the universe is ...

Lead image: This artist’s conception depicts how the formation of the universe’s first stars may have appeared. Dense clouds of hydrogen and helium likely collapsed inward, increasing pressure and ...

Astronomers use telescopes to look back in time and observe stars and galaxies as they were millions and billions of years ...

The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star - they are born brilliant, live fast and die young.

Scientists identify exoplanet candidate HD 137010 b, a possible Earth-size world orbiting a Sun-like star 146 light-years away ...