The James Webb Space Telescope’s deepest view of a single target yet depicts spinning arcs of light that are galaxies...
For the past decade, scientists have been trying to get to the bottom of what seemed like a major inconsistency...
In the cold, dark outskirts of planetary systems far beyond the reach of the known planets, mysterious gas giants and...
When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet on a distant...
My telescope, set up for astrophotography in my light-polluted San Diego backyard, was pointed at a galaxy unfathomably far from...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
The moon’s nearside (that is, the side facing Earth) is dark-colored and dominated by ancient lava flows, whereas the farside...
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud...
Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as previously assumed, but...
Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many...
Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the Moon has once again become...
Punishing conditions in the clouds of Venus could be home to a DNA-like molecule capable of forming genes in life...
