The most powerful events in the known universe—gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)—are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with...
Astronomers have detected an extreme eruption from a young star that became more than a hundred times brighter in only...
Employing massive data sets collected through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a research team led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick...
Astronomers have long sought to understand the early universe, and thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a critical...
A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University Assistant Research Scientist Tim Carleton, has discovered a dwarf galaxy that...
Planets orbit their parent stars while separated by enormous distances – in our solar system, planets are like grains of...
The study of “exoplanets,” the sci-fi-sounding name for all planets in the cosmos beyond our own solar system, is a...
Surrounded by the desert mountains and clear blue sky of northern Chile, astronomers from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory hope...
Star-shredding black holes are everywhere in the sky if you just know how to look for them. That’s one message...
With the upgraded GRAVITY-instrument at the Very Large Telescope Interferometer of the European Southern Observatory, a team of astronomers led...
The next generation of advanced telescopes could sharpen the hunt for potential extraterrestrial life by closely scrutinizing the atmospheres of...
A new treasure trove of Webb images has arrived. Near- and mid-infrared images show off every facet of these face-on...
