Mark Matney, a planetary scientist, pointed to an object recorded by the Chinese from 5BC - a bright comet that was visible ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

New images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and a Jupiter-bound mission showcase interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ahead of its ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects flying through ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A new study revisits ancient Chinese records to explore whether a comet could explain the Star of Bethlehem described in ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Using a powerful combination of space-based measurements and Subaru’s advanced imaging, astronomers have discovered two rare companions, one of which enables a key test for NASA’s Roman Space ...

The eighth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a young star cluster carving out space inside a ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...