Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better ...

"This explosion gave off more energy in a few seconds than the sun will over its entire life." Astronomers have used a newly ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...

In this exclusive interview, the lead researchers behind the discovery explain how NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spotted ...

An ‘extremely stripped supernova’ confirms the existence of a key feature of physicists’ models of how stars produce the ...

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

Targeted SETI approach listens for alien radio 'spillover' during planetary alignments, using Earth's deep space ...

Scientists may have found the first planet ever detected around our closest “solar twin,” a star called Alpha Centauri A, the ...

It’s worth noting that stars didn’t even start showing up until about 300 million years after the Big Bang. So, whether ...

A fast radio burst is an immense flash of radio emission that lasts for just a few milliseconds, during which it can ...

A colossal solar eruption has grabbed the attention of astronomers worldwide. On August 21, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded a fast-moving coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting ...