The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...

Astronomer Calvin Leung was excited last summer to crunch data from a newly commissioned radio telescope to precisely ...

With winds blowing at 20,500 mph, "the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own ...

In a letter to his replacement, outgoing NASA leader Bill Nelson emphasizes the agency’s activities ‘transcend the length of ...

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, ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy in just three years. A new project celebrates its impact on the ...

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

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

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 ...