Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

An ambitious project to map the density of every object in the cosmos has yielded a few surprises, and may help lead to new ...

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope peers deeper and deeper into time, it keeps making stranger discoveries. Case in point: What exactly is the ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known objects in the universe. The study may help scientists test theories about how ...

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When Matteo Paz scored a high school internship at the California Institute of Technology, the scientists there gave him the daunting task of manually sorting reams of data from a NASA mission. It was ...