Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of signals.

The U.S. Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring iconic images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The stamps, ...

Jenny Greene, a professor of astrophysical sciences and the director of Princeton’s Prison Teaching Initiative, was awarded ...

JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.

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Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside our galaxy.

Recent astronomical observations by ALMA and JWST have detected emissions from the distant galaxy GHZ2, located over 13 ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

In February 2024, scientists on Earth detected a powerful radio blast from outer space. Seeking to discover where it had come ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

“This is the first fast radio burst (FRB) found outside a dead galaxy and is farther from its associated galaxy than any ...

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