The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Researchers at Cambridge University made a big splash in April last year when they announced that they had strong evidence ...

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has ...

Through new experiments, researchers in Japan and Germany have recreated the chemical conditions found in the subsurface ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

Astronomers confirm the Shaaban crescent is not visible on January 18, leading to a 30-day Rajab in many Islamic countries.

A newly spotted feature inside a dying star’s remains is unsettling scientists, not because it is dramatic, but because it ...

Do you know what connects Edwin Hubble’s theory for an expanding universe and Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant? The ...

Stargazing, once a niche hobby for astronomers and science clubs, has gone mainstream and is boosting astrotourism.

Scientists warn a strange iron bar in a distant nebula could reveal Earth's fate when the Sun dies, offering a grim look at ...