An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery by definitively confirming the presence of crystalline ...

Webb Telescope finds crystalline water ice around star HD 181327. This discovery could reveal how icy bodies contribute to ...

The clue to the central star's nomadic past comes in the form of a distinct bow shock observed adjacent to the star — a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first-ever and long-anticipated detection of ice outside of our own solar system. The frozen water was found within a debris disk circling HD 181327, a ...

This particular telescope is under construction in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the darkest places on Earth ...

WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

When Lungelo Zondi first learned about stars and galaxies at primary school in South Africa, she dreamed of having a live ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

At the Paranal Observatory in Chile, the UT4 telescope doesn’t just observe the stars—it actively creates artificial stars to ...

A Cape Cod astronomer is tracking T Coronae Borealis, a star system that's expected to go nova soon. Here’s what you need to ...