Ten years ago, scientists heard the universe rumble for the first time. That first discovery of gravitational waves proved a key prediction from Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity and began a new era of astronomy.

A decade after the first discovery, scientists have used these waves to find a unique merger, a massive binary system and a crystal-clear gravitational wave signal.

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: Scientists have found a remarkably small yet bright object from the early universe that doesn’t make sense in our existing models of how stars and galaxies formed, even our own Milky Way.

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains multiple gaps and channels, almost akin to a vinyl record.

The fate of space shuttle Discovery remains in limbo as NASA approaches an important deadline outlined in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. This legislation gave acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy until Sunday to identify a space ...

Astronaut Suni Williams, who was born in NEO and became famous worldwide for her unexpected nine-month stay on the ISS, returned to her early roots to share stories from her extended stay in space.

Researchers have made an astonishing discovery, published in The Astrophysical Journal, made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): dust particles that have managed to survive a perilous journey through a galaxy’s harsh and hot environment.