A remarkable new study challenges the findings of Nobel Prize winning research into how our universe has changed over time.

For several decades, evidence has suggested that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Crucial to those estimates were the use of standard candles, celestial events of the same luminosity ...

The co-author of a new study assessing microplastics in lobsters says the research can serve as a warning that plastic ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Betelgeuse, 650 light years away, may be nearing the end of its fuel, meaning its supernova could light Earth’s skies as ...

The only possibility left was an extraordinary one: a tidal disruption event, or TDE.

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

"Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build" debuts Nov. 5, 2025 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS. "Operation Space Station: Science and Survival" drops Nov. 12, 2025, at 9 p.m. ET. Both will stream at PBS.org/NOVA, ...

Astronomers have observed an unprecedented flare from a black hole located in the AGN J2245+3743, 10 billion light-years away ...

For weeks leading into Halloween, and on Halloween itself, Acheson’s Park Street home in Yarmouth is transformed into a ...

Ghost particles' can zoom through you without a trace. Scientists are getting to the bottom of this cosmic mystery ...

For 25 years, the ISS has orbited Earth, but few know how close it came to disaster. A gripping new doc breaks the silence.