The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it surrounds the Sun and eight...
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the ‘inside-out’ growth of a galaxy in the...
Reionization is a critical period when the first stars and galaxies changed the physical structure of their surroundings, and eventually...
New research done at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory reveals potential signs of a rocky, volcanic moon orbiting an exoplanet 635...
A group of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at...
Planet AF Lep b is a world of firsts. In 2023, it was the lowest-mass planet outside our solar system...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a...
A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star...
Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disk galaxy seems as orderly as present-day...
A Canadian-led international study has revealed new insights into the atmosphere of GJ 9827 d—an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren’t as many as we thought. Using...
Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a...
