Physicists are quietly entertaining one of the strangest ideas in modern cosmology: that the cosmos we see might be only half ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Planetary alignments, a total lunar eclipse, and meteor showers are highlights to look for in the coming year.

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

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The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

Here are seven of the most beautiful star cluster and star-forming region images captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, ...

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

An international team of astronomers has achieved a first in probing the early universe, using the James Webb Space Telescope ...

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has been capturing images we never imagined possible, revealing ...