Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

Astronomers have just caught the brightest fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded, and it has been given a nickname worthy of ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.

Answers to some of cosmology's most pressing questions are obscured by simple dust. It concerns the Cosmic Noon, a period of ...

This is known as gravitational lensing. The Cosmic Grapes were made 100 times brighter and larger than they would otherwise ...

The study marks a major milestone in extragalactic astronomy, providing unprecedented insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies and the large-scale structure of the universe.

Astronomers have detected an unusually powerful and compact object in a nearby galaxy, one so bright and unique that it may ...

This is part of what makes galaxy clusters like PLCKG 287.0+32.9 (pronounced “Planck 287” for short) interesting to astronomers — “they carry memories of our early universe, therefore ...

The brightest galaxy is magnitude 12.6 NGC 7320 in the group’s southeastern region, followed by NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, and NGC 7318B, all magnitude 13.1.