Finding another Earth is the holy grail of modern astronomy. NASA’s upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.

A blowtorch of seething gases erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA's James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have observed a gamma-ray burst (GRB) unlike any seen before: a powerful explosion that repeated multiple times ...

The world's greatest space telescopes have all been round. Now, a new rectangular design could turbocharge our search for ...

For centuries, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of one of the universe’s oldest and densest stellar systems, known ...

Fomalhaut’s eccentric ring has been the focus of intense scrutiny for nearly two decades, and it keeps giving astronomers new ...

The clearest pictures ever taken of a solar flare have been captured by the world's largest solar telescope in Hawaii.

The recent breakthrough by the James Webb Space Telescope has transformed our understanding of distant worlds beyond our ...

"We were amazed by the fact that these observatories can detect about 100 black holes just 250 million years after the Big ...