The James Webb Space Telescope reveals a true factory for the production and dissemination of elements essential to all ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

"The James Webb Space Telescope has been truly revolutionary- it is now hard to imagine what life was like without it!" ...

The project, called OpenUniverse, relied on the now-retired Theta supercomputer at the DOE’s (Department of Energy’s) Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The supercomputer accomplished a process ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced new discoveries about an extreme form of planetary destruction: apparently ...

From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

"Chemical rockets that we use today, even with the extra speed boost from flying by planets, or from swinging by the sun for ...