On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing supernovae.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been busy, and honestly, it’s like getting a whole new set of eyes on the universe.

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A natural satellite is simply a celestial object that orbits a planet or a smaller body. Unlike the ones we build and send up ...

Evolving dark matter may explain cosmic acceleration. Observations support a mixed model. For years, a stubborn puzzle has sat at the center of the standard cosmological model. The evidence clearly ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

How old are the stars? Even with the most accurate tools currently available for modeling stellar evolution, the answer ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic ...