Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has performed deep and high spectral ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

Three years into its mission, Webb continues to deliver on its design – revealing previously hidden aspects of the universe, from the star formation process to some of the earliest galaxies,” said ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. These advanced instruments, located on Earth and in ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the smallest brown dwarfs ever seen with the potential to form planets and surrounded by mysterious molecules.

The objects seen as ‘guest stars’ at the time of these writings were actually stellar transients —temporary phenomena, like supernovae, that occur due to a change in the star.

PERTH — Something deep in the Milky Way is pulsing like clockwork, and no one knows what it is. Every 44 minutes, a mysterious space object nearly 15,000 light-years away sends out a blast of radio ...

A new study, published in the journal Icarus, suggests that stars passing close to the solar system will likely influence the orbits of the planets, causing another planet to smack into Earth or ...

HALO7D consists of Keck II/DEIMOS spectroscopy and Hubble Space Telescope-measured proper motions of MW halo main-sequence turnoff stars in the four Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic ...

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"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova remnant that had not been observed before." The Hubble Space Telescope may ...