The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, coldest ices measured to date in a molecular cloud," according to ESA. Credit: ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround dying stars before they go ...

Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space.

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...