A new space telescope with Irish scientific involvement goes into operation this week on a mission to study how stars behave ...

There's no better time than now to embrace the majesty of the night sky to begin a lifelong journey with amateur astronomy ...

XRISM’s observations of GX13+1 revealed a slow, fog-like wind instead of the expected high-speed blast, challenging existing models of radiation-driven outflows. The discovery hints that temperature ...

In the blink of an eye after the Big Bang, the universe could have birthed strange new stars and black holes.

Heavy water detected in the disk of V883 Orionis; chemical signature reveals that some of the water formed before the star ...

Far from Earth, drifting between the stars, lies a quiet ocean of carbon. Astronomers call it the interstellar medium, a vast realm where simple and complex molecules float through cold clouds of gas ...

The ESA's Euclid space telescope has been in space for just over a year, investigating some of the deepest mysteries of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered Population III stars, the universe's first generation of stars. They may ...

A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...

Columnist John Breunig fills a time capsule with moments from the opening of the Stamford Museum & Nature Center's new ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...

Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...