Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

A truly once-in-a-generation event is unfolding! Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is now visible from Earth after its journey ...

The 'potentially hostile alien threat' that has been at the centre of much debate among scientists will now be visible from ...

Dr. Massey’s tenure guided the Giant Magellan Telescope through key design and construction milestones, helped secure nearly ...

Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.

Astronomers have observed the most powerful black hole flare ever recorded. This discovery offers unprecedented insights into ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

Is there anything more dramatic than an exploding star? More than just extraordinarily bright, energetic events that can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) captured the star as it reaches the end of its life.

Astronomers have recently observed a planet being torn apart by its “zombie” white dwarf star, a phenomenon that challenges ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass of our Sun—to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the ...