S284p1 sits at the edge of the Milky Way about 15,000 light-years from Earth. As superheated gas falls onto the star, it gets ...

Scientists used the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility to X-ray the tiny fossil and reveal high-resolution details.

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A recent study combining observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and detailed analysis published in The Astrophysical Journal has provided compelling evidence that the Earth-sized ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

The fossil was dated to the Triassic period, between 252 and 201 million years ago. This specific fossil is about 241 million years old, making it 3 to 7 million years older than any lepidosaur found ...

The image was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, which resembles "Star Wars" villain Darth Maul's weapon.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a jaw-dropping sight: a massive jet of glowing gas blasting out from a newborn ...

Our knowledge of black holes is incomplete. We know there are stellar mass black holes that are created when massive stars ...

Hubble has uncovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf created in a violent star merger. Once thought to be ordinary, the star ...

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