When the object now known as 1I/ʻOumuamua streaked through the inner Solar System in 2017, it instantly rewrote the playbook ...

New Scientist. In each episode, hosts Leah Crane and Chelsea Whyte explore what would happen if they were given cosmic powers to rearrange the universe. They speak with astronomers, cosmologists and ...

From September 2024 to May 2025, a Sun-like star designated J0705+0612 became 40 times dimmer. Researchers describe the ...

Many observatories have captured the Helix Nebula, but none in such detail as the Webb.

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.

Astronomers have been given a new and incredibly detailed look at a very familiar astronomical object thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The new JWST image shows the Helix Nebula, the ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

A new Webb image captures a zoomed-in view of the iconic nebula, also known as the Eye of Sauron or Eye of God for its ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

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The giant planet Jupiter is back in our evening sky this week. Fresh from its opposition with the sun on Jan. 10, it now lies as close to the Earth as it ...

At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...