The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a trove of complex organic molecules frozen in ice around a ...

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket was scheduled for launch on Sunday (Nov. 9) but it has been delayed until Wednesday (Nov. 12) ...

In a finding that could change how scientists understand the spread of life's ingredients across space, astronomers have ...

Astronomers have discovered that the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades star cluster have more stellar siblings than we thought  — ...

Beyond the solar system lies a vast expanse where light from distant stars takes millennia to reach us. This episode explores the Oort Cloud, the nearest stars, the Milky Way’s unimaginable span, and ...

A University of Iowa researcher has been awarded funding from NASA to create an interstellar map that could lead to more accurate observations of planets located outside our solar system — known as ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

NASA’s Webb found complex organic molecules, including acetic acid, frozen around a young star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...

New data gleaned from the TESS and Gaia star-tracking spacecrafts, astronomers have revealed that this iconic group is part of a diaspora up to 20 times larger than previously imagined.

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy ...