At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

It may sound like science fiction, but imagining a battle between a gas giant and a black hole helps us understand just how ...

Clues about how worlds like Earth may have formed have been found buried at the heart of a spectacular "cosmic butterfly." With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers say they have ...

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

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

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

Mundane wayward space rock, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system's latest and only third ...

Two of the objects in the arrangement are cold brown dwarfs, which will serve as a benchmark for others throughout the Milky ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are helping to lead planning efforts for NASA’s next major space telescope ...

Astrophysicist Edwin Hubble was offered a staff position at the Mount Wilson Observatory in 1919 by the founder and director ...

Discover a complete Einstein ring, the first strong gravitational lens, which allows us to refine nearby stellar mass and ...