The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different ...

New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding faster than predicted by ...

But researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian space ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

Proposed budget reductions for the Hubble Space Telescope would impact research and outreach as well as increase the risk to ...

Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as it went. When the shockwave reached the star's surface, it punched through, ...