Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old — after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...
Despite its astonishing success, JWST has a flaw that made its observations on some targets borderline unusable, but PhD ...
Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...
I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...
HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...
It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...
The Hubble Space Telescope reveals how color filters tease out the life cycles of stars in spiral galaxy NGC 6000 — while a ...
How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...
Humans are finally building the technology that could tell us where to look, when to look, and what signs to watch for. What might we find? Why does it matter?
When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finds a red supergiant star before it exploded, offering new clues to why their supernovas ...