James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.

Some of Earth's oldest rocks buried deep in Western Australia may hold new clues about the dramatic event that gave rise to ...

Astronomers have recently detected mysterious radio signals emanating from the ancient comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, capturing the ...

Some 2,000 years ago, a Roman ship sank off the coast of Sardinia. Now its cargo is being used to search for elusive ...

NASA confirms 3I/ATLAS visible tonight — learn when and where to spot the rare interstellar comet lighting up Earth's skies ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...

Water discoveries in space happen all the time. But this one’s actually a big deal, and not just because some scientists got ...

Astronomers observed a massive, multi-temperature plasma eruption from a young Sun-like star, revealing how early solar ...

Greetings stargazers. Although I address these “What’s Up in the Durango Skies” columns to stargazers, we should occasionally be moon-gazers, too. I am writing this month’s column on the day of the ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...