Peering deeply into the cosmos, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving scientists their first detailed glimpse of supernovae from...
A surprising yellow haze of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere of a gas “dwarf” exoplanet about 96 light years away...
Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in...
Our galaxy has collided with many others in its lifetime. ESA’s Gaia space telescope now reveals that the most recent...
Astronomers have detected carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest detection of any...
Planets form in disks of gas and dust, orbiting young stars. The MIRI Mid-INfrared Disk Survey (MINDS), led by Thomas...
For every kilogram of matter that we can see—from the computer on your desk to distant stars and galaxies—there are...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Scientists at the University of Warwick are using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze cosmic explosions known as supernovae. Their paper...
An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of the two earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen, dating...
The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all...
When a star is born or dies, or when any other very energetic phenomenon occurs in the universe, it emits...
