
James Webb Space Telescope spies a newborn star in its cosmic crib (image)
The James Webb Space Telescope stared through the gas and dust surrounding an infant star around 1,000 light-years away to see the turbulent outflows it is generating.
The James Webb Space Telescope stared through the gas and dust surrounding an infant star around 1,000 light-years away to see the turbulent outflows it is generating.
The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a double whammy — two independent galaxy clusters grouped together in the same view.
NOIRLab says it's on track to halve its planet-warming emissions by the end of 2027.
It’s not always easy to match objects from various telescopic surveys. A new method can change this, allowing objects to be matched in up to 100 different surveys.
The newly discovered water mass, called the Atlantic Equatorial Water, stretches from Brazil to West Africa.
A new series of experiments has shown that the mysterious "E-prime layer," which surrounds Earth's outer core, is created by water that leaks deep into our planet's interior.
While NASA tested new Mars helicopter technology on Earth, Ingenuity was breaking records flying across the Martian surface.
New research strengthens the connection between neutron stars with powerful magnetic fields called magnetars, and mysterious blasts of radiation called fast radio bursts.
Building a space station on the Moon might seem like something out of a science fiction movie, but each new lunar mission is bringing that idea closer to reality.
Synchronizing two different stellar clocks helped reveal how long before adolescent stars fly the nest and leave their stellar siblings.
A new photo from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captures the Vela supernova remnant, the result of a stellar explosion that happened 11,000 years ago.
Over 25 years, the ISS has taught us what it means to live and work in space.
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NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is headed to one of Jupiter's largest moons. It's bringing along a microchip filled with human names.
Conditions within dwarf galaxies initially produce more stellar-mass black holes than supernova explosions.
As humanity prepares for longer stays in space, scientists have found that exposure to space environments could increase the risk of erectile dysfunction.
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane and water vapor in the atmosphere of an exoplanet located around 163 light-years away.
Chinese scientists have constructed a numerical model to simulate the Martian atmosphere and thus assist the country's plans to return rock samples from the Red Planet.
Last summer, Harvard professor Avi Loeb claimed tiny pellets of iron came from beyond our solar system. But new analyses suggest that they likely originated much closer to home.