Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have captured a stunning image of a "cosmic jellyfish." This aquatic-creature-like galaxy, designated ESO 137-001, was seen as it existed 8.5 ...

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost biological, like tentacles drifting through water. Yet this structure formed ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a sprawling, city-size renewable energy project in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of ...

Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

Straight to the dome.

Officials canceled an energy project that put one of the world’s darkest astronomy sites at risk of increased light pollution and vibration.

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.