Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope identified over 40 stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light-years away, thanks to ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the ...

"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...

At Argonne National Laboratory, scientists have leveraged the Frontier supercomputer to create an unprecedented simulation of the universe, encompassing a span of 10 billion light years and ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos as NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace ...

In the years following the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...

This diagram illustrates how rays of light from a distant galaxy or star can be bent by the gravity ... of the universe, from ...

Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...

This is called the “heat death” of the Universe, but you can think of it instead as the death of heat. There will be no more ...

Telescopes like Hubble and the James Webb Space Telescope can observe some incredibly distant galaxies, stretching all the ...