Mizzou scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found unusual "platypus galaxies" that could change what we know ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

"The surprise that a supposedly quiet, discless system could drive such a spectacular nebula was one of those rare 'wow' ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

T he Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been pivotal to progress in the last three decades of astronomy and cosmology.

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A ...

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Scientists observing the red giant star R Doradus have found that starlight isn’t strong enough to drive its stellar winds, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope found a barred spiral galaxy that formed when the universe was only two billion years old ...

Scientists have unveiled a new way to capture ultra-sharp optical images without lenses or painstaking alignment. The ...