Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

A team of international astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity unlike anything seen before: a galaxy bent by gravity into an Einstein Cross with not four but five distinct images.

A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.

Iconic spaceships from Star Trek has been spotted in space – according to playful rocket scientists. The team from NASA Universe shared images on Monday (Sep 8) of what appear to be the original USS ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

A strange “Einstein Cross” with an extra, impossible fifth image has revealed the hidden presence of a massive dark matter ...

Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

The idea was that high-powered lasers would propel tiny probes to 20 percent of the speed of light, impelling them with ...

"It made me realize that I'm not in charge of things. I can't fix everything, and maybe everything's actually out of our hands.” ...

Tiny, glowing red dots seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be one of the biggest surprises in modern ...