Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

Water in the great, cold nurseries where stars birth has a cosmic fingerprint. Astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10-times as massive as our galaxy, ...

Understanding how the universe transitioned from darkness to light with the formation of the first stars and galaxies is a ...

The nova, now officially named V462 Lupi, was first detected on 12 June by astronomers from Ohio State University's All-Sky ...

Is the Hubble constant—a key part of how we measure the expansion of our universe—in a crisis? Some cosmologists say yes.

Star formation peaked during the Cosmic Noon, which spanned from 10 to 12 billion years ago. During Cosmic Noon, star ...

Even though we know it’s there, humans can’t see much of the universe even with the most advanced technology. Some of ghost ...

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory surveys the night sky, astrophysicists expect to unlock the secrets of dark matter, dark ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

The never-before-seen "nova," dubbed V462 Lupi, recently appeared in the constellation Lupus, after suddenly becoming 4 ...