A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two ...

Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. Will the James Webb telescope resolve the issue by revealing new ...

Ditsö`, also known as WASP-17 b, orbits a star 1,300 light-years from Earth. One side of the planet is perpetually locked so ...

Galaxies usually become chaotic when they run out of star-making fuel, but this one is going out surprisingly quietly.

Astronomers have examined the Extreme Outer Galaxy, also known as the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy, using the ...

A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

A star’s surface temperature can be used to determine the star’s luminosity and chemical composition. At best, a star’s exact ...

It is almost 100 years since scientists discovered the universe is expanding. In the decades that followed, the accuracy of ...

Vidya Jyothi Prof Chandra Wickramasinghe, MBE, MA, PhD, ScD, Hon DSc, Hon DLit The Enlightenment in Europe which started in ...

NGC 1559, a distant barred spiral galaxy, is beautifully captured in a composite image by the Hubble Space Telescope. This ...

James and Emily Douthat lecture series will host Jeyhan Kartaltepe, Ph.D., associate professor of astrophysical sciences and ...