Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

Astronomers have just made an extraordinary discovery on the exoplanet WASP-127b: winds reaching a staggering 20,500 miles ...

Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they're calling the "Infinity Galaxy." The site of an epic head-on collision between two ...

The globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is approximately 160,000 light-years away from Earth.

Rather than being smooth and calm, the cloud is full of fast-moving, tangled filaments of gas—like a three-dimensional ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to the society. A good day to view them is Thursday, July 24. That's when the new moon is, according to the Farmers' Almanac.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...