Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust. The new views, in both near and mid-infrared, sharpen details from the ...

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...

"Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull." ...

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

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.

As data keeps exploding worldwide, scientists are racing to pack more information into smaller and smaller spaces — and a team at the University of Stuttgart may have just unlocked a powerful new ...

The earliest black holes in the universe may not have disappeared from Hawking radiation after all, new research hints. Instead, they fed on the energy of the ancient cosmos to grow supermassive.

According to a leading theory, black holes form when massive stars exhaust their nuclear fuel, triggering an explosive supernova that blasts the star's outer layers into space that leaves behind ...

When this object was first observed, it didn’t just expand scientific knowledge — it unsettled it. Its behavior defied expectations and forced astronomers to reconsider what’s possible in deep space.