Hundreds of mysterious objects have appeared in images captured by the Webb space telescope. The curious dots could reshape ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors—a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the ...

An illustration of the collision. (Andy Tzanidakis) A distant star whose light suddenly flickered like a guttering candle has ...

The massive, 1,100-foot-wide asteroid Apophis is currently hurtling toward Earth at an astonishing 19 miles per second, ...

T he first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University ...

The observatory aims to answer a number of questions about the universe by studying different phenomena in the sky, including ...

The molten planet, with an atmosphere rich in sulfur-bearing gases, is unlike anything astronomers have ever smelled.

Two planets crashed into one another in a violent, chaotic collision that astronomers recently witnessed 11,000 light-years ...

A new study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, finally changes that. Using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), researchers built a three-dimensional map of ...

Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can't watch it being built, you can't interview the architects, all you have are the structures ...