The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14 ...

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 venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

Dr. Leonardos Gkouvelis, researcher at LMU's University Observatory Munich and member of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster, has ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

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

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

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.

Early last year, there was talk that the newly-discovered Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a really small, but probable chance of ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star dies.

February 2026 begins with the Full Moon, the Snow Moon, on February 1. The last quarter moon is on February 9. The new moon, an annular eclipse visible only in Antarctica, is on February 17. The ...

Launched between 1971 and 1987 primarily to collect intelligence data on foreign weapon testing, the last satellites in the JUMPSEAT family were withdrawn from service in 2006. A memorandum dated Dec.