Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a rapidly spinning neutron star that is gravitationally bound to a helium star ...

There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

The JWST has done it again. The powerful space telescope has already revealed the presence of bright galaxies only several hundred million years after the Big Bang. Now, it's sensed light from a ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Scientists have detected oxygen in a galaxy so distant that its light has traveled 13.4 billion years to reach Earth, ...

Scientists detect oxygen in GHZ2, a galaxy located 13.4 billion light-years away, revealing intense star formation and low ...

These clouds of radio energy are "radio relics" resulting from powerful shockwaves surging through the hot gas that fills the space amid a galaxy cluster ... have previously detected less than ...

These glowing arcs of radio energy are known as "radio relics," faint clouds resulting from powerful shockwaves surging through hot gas that fills the space amid a galaxy cluster ... Astronomers have ...

“The JWST’s infrared eyes detected clear signatures of tellurium—a heavy element ... While dying stars do create lighter elements like carbon and oxygen, neutron star mergers generate staggering ...

9. SPT0615-57 (12.8 billion years old) Distance from Earth: 12.8 billion light years Why SPT0615-57 is important: SPT0615-57 is the most distant galaxy ever seen. While roughly 1/10th as large as ...