Astronomers have confirmed a pair of white dwarfs on a collision course to become a type 1a supernova—the brightest cosmic ...

In a nutshell Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole from the early universe that’s barely feeding — suggesting ...

Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here's how scientists ...

This lets astronomers determine how far away the galaxies are ... might not behave like a simple cosmological constant — but ...

In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic as his writing. His works inspired Romantic and Symbolist poets, and many ...

(ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/S. Carniani et al./S. Schouws et al/JWST: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson/UC Santa Cruz, Ben Johnson/CfA, Sandro Tacchella/Cambridge, Phill Cargile/CfA) But when a team of ...

This lets astronomers determine how far away the galaxies ... a simple cosmological constant—but it wasn't strong enough to draw firm conclusions. Now, the second batch of data has made this ...

Marenfeld under CC BY 4.0 For decades, astronomers have probed the space around Barnard’s Star in search of exoplanets. As our cosmic neighbor—the nearest single-star system to our sun—it ...

Those outbursts would seed the universe with the first heavier elements, but astronomers thought it would take several generations of stars before galaxies were brimming with enough oxygen and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor and thick clouds on LTT 9779 b, an ultra-hot Neptune locked in a blistering 19-hour orbit. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Handout of an artist’s impression of Jades-GS-z14-0, which as of today is the most distant confirmed galaxy (PA) Astronomers have said the Universe may have developed “much faster than was ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0. This record-breaking detection is making astronomers rethink how quickly galaxies formed in the early Universe ...