Astronomers from the Center of Astronomical and Space Education in Moscow report the discovery of a new star, which turned ...

Astronomers have shared a jaw-dropping view of what galaxies looked like in the early Universe. A study has peered back to ...

JWST observations help researchers in spotting a 'jellyfish galaxy' with a 'tentacle' full of released stellar material.

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...