"This is a crucial step towards characterizing giant planets beyond our solar system." ...

Scientists have mapped the upper atmosphere of Uranus in detail, revealing a cooler, thinner, and more unevenly charged layer around the planet than expected.

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The light from the rare galaxy has challenged conceptions of what the universe would have been like in the early stages.

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

Woven through the universe are forces, often unseen, that dictate its grand design. For example, at the very heart of nearly ...

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

Astronomers have found growing evidence that runaway black holes are hurtling through galaxies at extreme speeds, leaving ...

Astronomers used James Webb Space Telescope data to determine the density of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...

HOUSTON, TX -A seven-year-old girl in Lucknow stood in her backyard at dawn in October 1957, watching Sputnik streak across the sky. Nearly seven decades later, that child would help steer some of ...