A stunning Hubble image showcases a spiral galaxy seemingly intertwined with a nearby star—but looks can be deceiving! This ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious X-ray signals coming from a nearby white dwarf star for more than 40 years. We may now ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, ...

Explosions in the sky and explosions on land are literally worlds apart. A supernova and a land mine explosion don't seem ...

A distant star-killing supernova could have bombarded Earth with radiation strong enough to shift the course of evolution.

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Simulated stellar explosions show that massive early stars could have created plentiful water for future stars and planets to ...

The newest generation of radio telescopes – including the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and MeerKAT, a telescope in South Africa – is revealing incredibly faint cosmic objects, ...

Sometimes deep space can seem like a cold, uncaring place fully removed from the dramas unfolding on the planet Earth.

A nearby galaxy is ablaze with new stars in a dazzling new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The findings dramatically push back the timeline for water's cosmic appearance to just 100-200 million years after the ...