Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

The name “blue lurker” might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that ...

T he European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has almost completely depleted the cold gas propellant that kept it spinning and able to scan the sky, so it has decided to nominally end science operations ...

This year’s festival will have a Star Wars theme as characters from ‘a galaxy far far away’ will be captured in gleaming ice ...

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 ...

Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that's teetering at the black hole's edge.

NASA's Roman Space Telescope, slated for a 2027 launch, will provide insights into dark energy and exoplanets. It will ...

The new year might be a time to reset and relax for most, but in the tech world, January kickstarts a year of innovation. CES ...

Tahnoun bin Zayed al Nahyan—the UAE’s chess-obsessed, jiujitsu-loving intelligence chief—controls vast sums of sovereign ...