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

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

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

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

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

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

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

Astronomers observed a massive, multi-temperature plasma eruption from a young Sun-like star, revealing how early solar ...

Two weeks ago, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was at conjunction, on the opposite side of the Sun with respect to Earth. Last week, it reached perihelion, the closest point it would ever get to the Sun.

Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the ...

China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST), a major piece of national scientific infrastructure ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...