NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has shown us images of space we’d never see otherwise, and one of the latest wonders it has ...

The unique system features two rare Wolf-Rayet stars, and a supergiant companion that is interrupting the flow of the dust ...

The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed the first-ever reflectance spectra — essentially a color-coded key — of the ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four ...

Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...

The four beams produced bright artificial “stars," which act as guides to help astronomers correct for the distortions caused ...

The observations are the earliest yet of a supernova, revealing in detail the moment that the shockwave obliterated the star.

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time ...

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Saturn and Jupiter, he had just discovered the nature of two giant planets. Later came Uranus and Neptune, two more gas giants. Since then, astronomers have ...