The discovery of the extraordinary exoplanet LTT 9779b was first announced a month ago. Just 260 light-years away, the planet was...
Ever wonder what Jupiter would look like naked, without its thick coat of turbulent clouds? An exoplanet 575 light-years away...
The mysteries of the cosmos continue to amaze astronomers, and with each new observation comes a chance to deepen—or upend—our...
The debris from a colossal cosmic explosion in a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away is no ordinary supernova....
A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University Assistant Research Scientist Tim Carleton, has discovered a dwarf galaxy that...
An international team of astronomers used a database combining observations from the best telescopes in the world, including the Subaru...
Scientists have found four enormous cavities, or bubbles, at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory....
Using new data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the abundance of oxygen in the early universe....
Ancient light from the Big Bang has revealed a precise new estimate for the universe’s age: 13.77 billion years, give...
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides further evidence for tidal disruption in the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4. This...
The NSF’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has revealed new information about mysterious radio bubbles surrounding a supermassive black hole. In...
A citizen scientist has searched NSF’s NOIRLab’s catalog of 4 billion celestial objects, known as NOIRLab Source Catalog DR2, to...