Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

"It’s kind of a jigsaw puzzle where all the different pieces are moving." ...

TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center and it’s not just a place ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet ...

Subjects including linguistics, international studies and human-centered design and engineering all halted taking ...

The Geminids peak annually in mid-December, when Earth passes through a dense trail of cosmic dust left behind by the ...

Meteors from the Geminid shower can be colorful, with hues ranging from green to purple and amber. And sometimes they streak ...

Black holes that were far too large shortly after the Big Bang posed a puzzle for astronomy. Now, stars were discovered that ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

Star clusters are of great importance in any galaxy: they are the birthplace of new stars, often containing massive stars of ...