In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...

The poll also found that Americans broadly agree that space exploration adds to national pride and scientific advancements ...

For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world ...

For the first time, astronomers have observed the birth of a planet around a star outside our solar system, providing invaluable insights into the process of planet formation.

The discovery of dormant galaxies, located in the first billion years after the Big Bang, is shaking up our understanding of ...