You might think only billion-dollar telescopes and professional observatories can contribute to cutting-edge space science.

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

Known as blue straggler stars, these age-defying celestial objects have mystified astronomers for more than 70 years. "Blue ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbled in high-resolution footage captured by the Gemini North telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Glowing pieces of the comet are visible in the 8.1-meter diameter ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that ...

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.

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which examined the sky for exoplanets ...

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.

A stronomers have used artificial intelligence (AI) to find hundreds of "anomalies" in data from the Hubble Telescope. More ...