Star trails are the visible imprint of Earth's rotation. As our planet spins around its axis, the stars appear to sweep ...
New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.
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 ...
Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, ...
The Webb telescope has unlocked a mystery in an exotic star system located approximately 8,000 light-years from Earth. Using ...
A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...
Observations with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a ...
Space scientists have captured a never-before-seen cosmic spiral. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken a jaw-dropping ...
Thanks for the James Webb Space Telescope image, researchers were able to observe four coiled shells of dust around the pair ...
Webb unveils Apep's swirling dust “serpents,” revealing a rare triple-star system carving perfect spirals across 700 years of ...
Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The lasers successfully created an "artificial star" that astronomers can use to ...
WASHINGTON — The explosive death of a star, a supernova, is among the most violent cosmic events, but precisely how this cataclysm looks as it unfolds has remained mysterious. Scientists now have ...