The James Webb Space Telescope is helping astronomers characterize the atmospheres of planets very different from those in our solar system
Astronomers frequently observe carbon monoxide in planetary nurseries.
Two new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed.
Gazing back to the early epochs after the Big Bang, for the first time have scientists found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole.
Researchers from ETH Zurich discover the first definitive proof that the Moon inherited indigenous noble gases from the Earth’s mantle.
Some cosmological models propose that the universe expands and contracts in infinite cycles, but new research finds a crucial flaw in the latest version of this theory
Signs of disturbance in the dwarf galaxies of one of Earth’s nearest galaxy clusters indicate an alternative gravity theory
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption in January was unique in observed science, creating waves that reverberated around Earth, reaching 100km into the ionosphere.
The quest to unravel the mystery behind the formation of the first quasars in the early universe has taken a significant step forward.
People could potentially live and work in lunar pits and caves with steady temperatures in the 60s
An international team of scientists has analyzed archive data for powerful cosmic explosions from the deaths of stars and found a new way to measure distances in the distant universe.
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu’s surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided scientists with a direct test of the poorly understood near-subsurface physical properties of rubble-pile asteroids.
The clear and periodic pattern of fast radio bursts may originate from a distant neutron star.
New COMAP radio survey will peer beneath the "tip of the iceberg" of galaxies to unveil a hidden era of star formation
What do Mars and Iceland have in common?
A newly discovered star only takes four years to travel around the black hole at the centre of our galaxy / publication in ‘The Astrophysical Journal’
The moon sustained twice as many impacts as can be seen on its surface, scientists find.
New simulation also shows gamma ray bursts are 10 times rarer than previously thought
Event provides new evidence that traveling stars can form binary systems
Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found a group of stars in the Milky Way disk, that are most likely remnants from an unknown baby galaxy that was swallowed by the Milky Way over 10 billion years ago.