"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars—a real-life 'twist' ...

Thanks to mid-infrared images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the center ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever seen, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a roaming magnetar of a different origin, indicating the possibility of understanding ...

If future Mars colonizers want to survive without pressure suits, they’ll need to generate a denser atmosphere. One way to ...

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...

The rings, first detected in 2010 by Nasa’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), now appear as fuzzy clusters ...

The warning at the Outer Banks came from the Cape Lookout National Seashore, where a small tidal sandbar forms at Point of ...

NASA has released some stunning images of dying stars, offering the most in-depth view of the planetary nebula NGC 1514 to ...

The James Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has proven to be essential in decoding the full complexity of NGC 1514. Capable of capturing thermal emissions from small dust grains heated by ...

A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d is ...