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

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

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

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

NASA’s powerful telescope imaged a seething jet of gases. The eruption flows from a massive protostar in space. It speeds at ...

Is the key to finding life beyond Earth within 40 light-years of us? NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is now giving its most ...

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

The study leveraged the power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, to try ...

For generations, astronomers have pondered the origins of globular clusters, which are among the universe’s oldest and ...

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

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