Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

An asteroid is headed towards Earth. It's not going to hit us, but it is going to hang out for a couple of months. A recently ...

The Museum of Natural and Cultural History opens its newest exhibit featuring images from the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star ...

The Milky Way’s outer reaches are coming into view thanks to the JWST. Astronomers pointed the powerful space telescope to a ...

Researchers have invented a technique that enables low Earth orbit satellite antennas to manage signals for multiple users at once, slashing costs and simplifying designs for communication satellites.

Throughout history, a belief in the “fixed” and changeless stars was held by many cultures. But at the beginning of the 19th ...