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

This video explains the history, scientific impact, and eventual collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, and why its loss marked a significant moment for astronomy and space research.

The homemade telescope is the handiwork of Whanganui amateur astronomer Joseph Thomas Ward. Ward championed astronomy in New Zealand when its popularity was growing but the high cost of equipment made ...

This violent fate is rare: fewer than about 1% of stars are big enough to end their lives this way. Indeed, these dramatic explosions only occur in so-called “massive stars”. These are stars with a ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

The comet formed in a cold and distant part of the early Milky Way up to 12 billion years ago, putting it just under 2 ...

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection—the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a ...

A study led by the University of Oxford has identified a new type of planet beyond our solar system—one that stores large amounts of sulfur deep within a permanent ocean of magma. The findings have ...

Astronomers have uncovered a hidden cosmic web of galaxies and gas by mapping hydrogen light from the early universe.

From Leonardo’s notebooks to neural networks, the tools of intelligence have evolved, but the human impulse behind them remains the same Suhaib Bakshi When a student today asks an artificial ...

On March 13, the Dunblane Primary School shooting shocked Scotland and spurred major gun law reforms, alongside other key ...