The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...

We are now beginning to better understand exoplanets as against merely discovering them. These are the exotic worlds that ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was involved in yet another first discovery recently available in pre-print form on ...

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Astronomers have discovered a bizarre carbon-rich planet orbiting a neutron star, PSR J2322-2650b, with soot clouds and ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...

A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets. The ...

Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawai‘i, NASA scientists have directly imaged the faint partner, confirming what astronomers have long suspected but never proven—until now. The discovery provides ...

For decades, scientists have studied how planets form by looking at young stars nearby, assuming that these environments could be representative of all star systems. However, as astronomers discover ...

CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" follows a group of nerds whose hobbies include reading comic books and watching sci-fi shows, with "Star Trek" being a particular favorite among the gang. What's more, some ...