The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Nancy Roman Space Telescope are revealing the universe's earliest chapters in ...

Scientists have created one of the largest and most detailed simulations of the early universe ever made, offering an ...

Rubin Observatory has spotted a distant world beyond Pluto as its decade-long survey begins revealing the hidden solar system ...

To help astronomers understand what they are seeing, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have ...

Magnetic fields exist in many stars, including the sun. Yet they remain too poorly understood to be reliably included in ...

Each of the 2,884 points in a dataset called Unite marks a star that blew apart. All are likely Type Ia supernovae, the kind astronomers use as standard candles for measuring cosmic distance. A team ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have observed a galaxy with a ring of newborn stars as it appeared 2.1 ...

Berkeley’s newest space telescope, COSI, is one of many instruments built at the Space Sciences Laboratory. By Charlotte ...

Seventeen-year-old Wolf Cukier was on his third day on the job as a NASA intern when he discovered a fascinating new planet.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered new clues about the gas surrounding the Milky Way's supermassive black hole ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s detection of a possible dwarf planet is just the start of many more discoveries in our cosmic ...

A gamma-ray burst (GRB) that has confounded astronomers is one of the brightest cosmic light shows in the past 20 years.