Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Astronomers have taken a major step in understanding how planets form, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A ...

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

There is a new exhibit at the University of Arizona Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium: Universe of Science. It features ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are icy bodies that vary widely in size, from large dwarf planets like Pluto and Eris—each ...

Rocket Lab USA (RKLB) has soared 473% over the past year, fueled by strong revenue growth exceeding 50% in the last three ...

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch after February 27, 2025 ...

The telescope’s size let it make images of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to distinguish individual ... more distant than galaxies observed in the 1920s. The James Webb ...

SETI scientists try to determine whether aliens at a similar technology level to humans could detect Earth and from how far ...