Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered its clearest view yet of a supermassive black hole's immediate surroundings, ...

I have been writing about the Giant Magellan Telescope for a long time. Nearly two decades ago, for example, I wrote that ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Data from the Kepler project has confirmed a new world that fulfills the telescope's goal of locating Earth-sized planets ...

The US, China, India, Europe and Japan all have exciting missions on the horizon in 2026. Many of them are collaborative ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

NASA’s search for Earth-like planets has accelerated rapidly over the past decade, revealing thousands of distant worlds ...