Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

You’re looking at the cosmic neighborhood of the Milky Way. Travel beyond the dark matter halo into intergalactic space and meet the 59+ dwarf galaxies already orbiting our own. Discover the fate of ...

NASA confirms interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is a natural comet, not an alien artefact. Its nickel and CO2-rich chemistry suggests it's pre-Sun matter, offering unique insights into ancient star ...

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Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

Following its birth as a 1978 BBC Radio sitcom through its many and varied adaptations, Douglas Adams ’ The Hitchhikers’ ...

Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

The object is the third interstellar visitor to our solar system ever confirmed. It will reach its closest point to Earth ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

A team of researchers has confirmed stars ring loud and clear in a "key" that will harmonize well with the science goals and ...