Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe a distant galaxy merger called CRISTAL-02. CRISTAL-02 is losing ...

This Star Is About To Explode!

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can walk through” visualizes the cosmos in a 3-D introduction to the universe ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed 13-billion-year-old light, using a closer galactic cluster like a magnifying glass.

For more than a century, cosmic rays have remained one of astronomy’s lingering puzzles. These tiny particles move through space carrying extraordinary amounts of energy, arriving from distant corners ...

Researchers working to solve the mysteries of neutrinos have unveiled the first scientific findings from a new underground ...

Two stars that once lived together in the Jellyfish Nebula may have also died together.

From star‑forming pillars to colliding galaxies, Hubble’s most iconic images reveal how the universe is built, evolves and continues to surprise For more than 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

A new AI-powered framework could transform how astronomers measure the expansion of the Universe. By analyzing images of Type ...

On July 4, 1054, a supernova explosion occurred, marking the death of a star thought to be nine to 11 times more massive than our Sun. This event was observed and recorded around the ancient world, ...

If the supernova remnant is confirmed, it would be one of the closest to the supermassive black hole that lies in the center of the Milky Way NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured a dramatic ...

A spectacular cosmic event nicknamed “SN Winny” could help solve one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries: how fast the universe is expanding. This rare superluminous supernova, located 10 billion ...