The James Webb Space Telescope captured NGC 346, a star-forming region about 210,000 light years away. One of the features of ...

See composites created using James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory imagery. A pair of galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster are the targets. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

Space observatories tend to work quietly, collecting data long before images reach the public. In March 2025, NASA launched the SPHEREx space telescop.

A city-sized green comet, C/2024 E1 (Wierzchoś), is approaching Earth and will soon be ejected into interstellar space, ...

On February 17, the comet will make its closest approach to Earth from 94 million miles, roughly as far as the Sun.

Detection of hydrogen sulfide in four HR 8799 gas giants provides evidence of solid accretion, clarifying how massive exoplanets form and distinguishing them from brown dwarfs ...

During the business meeting, Hamilton announced that Kim Lubel, former CEO of CST Brands Inc., is serving in her first term as Chair of the SwRI Board and Phil Green, the Chairman and CEO of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a planetary system that challenges conventional theories of planet formation. The system likely includes a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

Researchers report that ASASSN-24fw dimmed for nine months due to a ringed companion, likely a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter, based on observations published by Universe Today and the Royal ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...