"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...
Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed the most distant single star it's ever observed, glimmering 28 billion light-years away. And the star could be between 50 to 500 times more massive than our sun ...
This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an astounding number of galaxies. The objects in this frame span an incredible range of distances, from stars ...
JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...
As a science communicator, I don’t think a week goes by without a press release hitting my inbox informing me of astronomers ...
A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in ...
A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Exploring Space Lectures Series Presenters: Sandra Faber, Lick Observatory; and Robert Williams, Space Telescope Science Institute One of the ...
Go outside right now. What’s the farthest thing you can see? A tree? A bird? What about the Moon? It’s 250,000 miles away. The Sun is 400 times farther than that, at nearly 100 million miles (but ...