While scientists discovered the Cosmic Vine using the James Webb Space Telescope, they have yet to find a string of galaxies ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

The ancient and rare star PicII-503 is helping astronomers understand how carbon became so abundant in the universe.

Free-floating planets could host moons with tidal heating and thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres that may be able to create ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...

Astronomers have detected strange "wobbles" in the light curve of a super bright supernova, hinting that a magnetar was born ...

The stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud aren’t behaving the way they should. A cataclysmic collision with another nearby ...

A nebula that, instead of being round, takes the shape of a giant egg: this atypical silhouette is the work of a duo of aging ...

"Discoveries like this are cosmic archaeology, uncovering rare stellar fossils that preserve the fingerprints of the universe ...

Two telescopes have captured images of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing how a dying star shed layers of material in violent ...