Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

A massive barred spiral galaxy from 11.1 billion years ago has been discovered, showing star-forming activity and gas ...

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, sends out bursts of radio waves and X-rays that last two minutes and repeat every 44 ...

These 20 "city killer" asteroids, each over 140 metres in size, could potentially be on a future collision course with Earth.

How does light manage to travel billions of light-years without ever slowing down? This is a question that seems to defy ...

The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed ...

One of the ENTs studied in this work, named Gaia18cdj, released 25 times more energy than the most powerful supernova on ...

The Gemini North telescope and Subaru Telescope have been used to discover most distant merging quasars yet, "seen over 900 ...

A swarm of large asteroids likely lurking around Venus could one day pose an "invisible threat" to Earth if left unchecked, ...

UC Santa Barbara physics professor co-leads COSMOS-Web Project cataloging nearly 800,000 galaxies spanning nearly all of ...

A newly detected planet beyond Pluto is not just expanding our understanding of the Solar System, it might be quietly rewriting it. Astronomers from the University of Taiwan recen ...