Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...

Astronomers have been aware of cosmic vampires, dead stars that hungrily strip plasma from victim stars, for some time. New ...

Imagine a star powered not by nuclear fusion, but by one of the universe’s greatest mysteries—dark matter. Scientists have ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

As the number of confirmed exoplanets approaches 6,000, Earth-sized exoplanets like GJ 12 b are helping astronomers better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets orbiting M dwarf ...

Astronomers are using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to look for signs of atmospheres on exoplanets orbiting close to red dwarf stars.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM)," according to the NASA. Zoom into the imagery ...