From degeneracy to galactic archaeology, white dwarfs are helping scientists make sense of some of the universe's burning mysteries.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Well, maybe this newly discovered object should be called a failed galaxy… it has some of the hallmarks of galaxies, dark matter, and gas, namely, but it did fail to form any stars. Meet Cloud-9.

ESA-built tool trawls nearly 10 crore Hubble image cutouts and flags more than 1,300 oddities in two and a half days, NASA ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients ...

Solar Orbiter observations show that a medium-class solar flare formed through cascading magnetic reconnection events, ...

It was long thought, up until recently, that asteroids and comets delivered Earth's oceans during the very early Solar System ...

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full moon, scientists have created the most detailed cosmic map to date of the ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

There’s no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these winter evenings, rising in the southeast as evening twilight ends. In fact, you should be able to easily see it long before twilight fades. Jupiter is ...

Chinese astronomers have used a small telescope in Antarctica to observe a type of cosmic radiation normally blocked by Earth ...