Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

A newly detected X-ray transient may reveal the first direct evidence of an intermediate-mass black hole consuming a white dwarf. A newly observed cosmic outburst is giving astronomers a rare glimpse ...

It was only last October that telescopes spotted a gamma ray burst—caused by the collapse of a black hole —that was so ...

Wouldn’t it be great to have a truly jaw-dropping view? Like windows looking directly into space? Well, it’s time to build ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and electricity ...

Cosmic rays inside a dense molecular cloud were measured for the first time, helping scientists better understand how stars begin forming.

For the first time in Brazil, researchers have identified a field of tektites. These are natural glasses formed by the high-energy impact of extraterrestrial bodies against Earth's surface. These ...