Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

James Webb Space Telescope captured the light of a dying star, supernova GRB 250314A, from when the universe was only 730 ...

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In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing images we never imagined possible, revealing ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...

A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Oxygen detected just 300 million years after the Big Bang has caused viral claims that cosmology is wrong. But does this ...

SANTA CRUZ — Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...