In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), now under construction in the Chilean Andes, is set to revolutionize the field of ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

The Webb space telescope observed a supernova that took place when the universe was 730 million years old, setting a new ...

The Hubble tension is especially troubling because it involves two sets of measurements that offer conflicting views of the ...

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

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...

One of the largest rotating structures ever reported has been found by astronomers - a “razor-thin” string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic filament, 140 million light-years away. The ...

In a discovery that's fit for a movie, Northwestern University astronomers have directly imaged a Tatooine-like exoplanet, orbiting two suns. While obtaining an image of a planet beyond our solar ...

The two galaxies shown here, NGC 6278 and PGC 039620, are representative of the more than 1,600 galaxies analyzed in a new study. Both galaxies are ...