In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

The article explains star formation from gas and dust in nebulae to protostars igniting nuclear fusion. It covers the ...

The scientific community has long grappled with the question of whether these stars can support planets capable of sustaining ...

The newly discovered planetary system consists of a white dwarf about half the mass of our sun and an Earth-like planet in an ...

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: ...

A series of controversies has rocked the field of cosmology. The standard model of the universe appears to be at odds with ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

NASA plans to launch an artificial star into space by 2029 for better telescope calibration and precise measurement of ...

In a $19.5 million NASA-funded mission, a team at George Mason University is heading a project to construct and launch a ...

NASA plans to launch an artificial star by 2029 to help scientists calibrate telescopes and improve measurements of stellar ...

Astronomers have uncovered the "Neptunian Ridge," a newly identified feature in the distribution of exoplanets. This ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...