Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time identified the progenitor of a nearby supernova -- a red supergiant star cloaked in thick, dust-rich shrouds that ...

The galaxy, cataloged as COSMOS2020-635829, was spotted in data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and has a redshift of z = 1.156, meaning astronomers are seeing it as it existed about 8.5 ...

This newly discovered jellyfish galaxy, named COSMOS2020-635829, has a redshift of z = 1.156, meaning astronomers are seeing it as it existed about 8.5 billion years ago. That makes it the most ...

The universe contains billions of galaxies, each filled with stars, dust and mystery. Here are 12 incredible galaxies, ...

Far beyond Neptune, in the frozen depths of the Kuiper Belt, many ancient objects oddly resemble giant snowmen made of ice ...

A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No bright spiral arms.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning imagery of barred spiral galaxy UGC 678. The galaxy is located about 260 million ...

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the ...

As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing ...

Charleston, SC, astronomy professor answers questions from high school students about wormholes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space odors and more.