Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a nearby spiral galaxy known ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By ...

By reading the chemical “fingerprints” of a distant galaxy, astronomers reconstructed its 12-billion-year evolution. This new ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified emerging young star clusters still breaking free from their ...

A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have for the first time used galactic ...

Astronomers discover PicII‑503, a 14-billion-year-old star carrying primordial elements, challenging theories of early star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its infrared instruments on the spiral galaxy NGC 628, producing the first ...

For decades, astronomers have known that gravity pulls molecular clouds inward to form stars, while internal pressure pushes ...

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

Something is hiding inside Kepler-51d, and it’s doing a remarkably good job of it. About 2,615 light-years away in the ...

Because contemplating the vast, never-ending universe now feels infinitely more manageable than reading another update about ...

A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe the elusive ...