Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Leo P, a galaxy once dormant, has reawakened to form stars again, offering new clues about the universe's earliest galaxies.

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

Controversial new findings have reignited the longstanding cosmological quarrel involving what astronomers call the "Hubble ...

James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has ...

Astronomers, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), have identified AT 2023adsv, one of the oldest recorded supernovas.

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

NASA's striking discovery in the universe. The agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a planet ...

Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...

Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

NASA’S Pandora mission has moved one step closer to exploring planets which have the potential for alien life. The team ...