Shapley’s award of the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics will be presented at the 249th AAS Meeting, Jan. 10-14, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only about 800 million years old, according to a study published in Nature ...

A surprising new set of objects in space with mismatched parts has been discovered by University of Missouri astronomers, ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

Stuart Jefferies, Georgia State University professor of physics and astronomy, along with students and international space scientists, have taken up the challenge to find lifeforms across the two ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

A team of astronomers based at the European Space Agency demonstrated how artificial intelligence technology will alter ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

Published in Nature Astronomy, the study details how Webb's infrared instruments charted nearly 800,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field. The data reveal how dark matter – ...

Astronomers used an a custom-built AI tool to scour millions of Hubble images, uncovering the universe's overlooked curiosities.

From galaxies to the Sun, new research explains how turbulent motion can produce large-scale magnetic fields that remain ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star ...