Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets : planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to discover new worlds goes ...

These are big, literally cosmic questions, and astronomers continue to struggle to nail down the answers. Different ...

Our team has now provided tentative evidence for a sulphur-rich atmosphere on a world that’s 1.5 times the size of Earth and ...

The galaxy has a lovely glow because ... search for any companion stars that the supernova progenitor might have had. The ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Check out these 8 images of galaxies, star clusters, supernovas and others captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope in ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

The James Webb Telescope reveals that dwarf galaxies illuminated the early Universe, driving reionization and transforming ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided us with some of the most awe-inspiring images of the universe, giving humanity a ...

This image showcases galaxy IC 2163 and NGC 2207 with cold dust glows throughout the area. They also depict spiral arms with ...

Wolf-Rayet 124, a star captured by NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, is surrounded by a nebula with random, asymmetric ejections, resembling tadpoles and tails.