Astronomers have discovered how "forever young" stars stay blue and bright despite being almost as old as the universe.
A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...
"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA's new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...
On Christmas Day 2021, alongside other astronomers, I watched the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launch from French Guiana and begin its month-long journey to its destination, 1.5 million ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Exoplanets are worlds that orbit other stars. They are very difficult to observe ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniel Apai, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched ...