The James Webb Space Telescope seems to have made the monumental first detection of Population III stars - first stars to form in the universe, shortly after the Big Bang - in a star cluster "LAP1-B" around 13 billion light years away

Scientists announce detection of the strongest and most distant black-hole flare ever seen - located about 11 billion light-years from Earth, it is shining with the power of a whopping 10 trillion suns

Our Universe Has Already Entered Decelerating Phase, Study Suggests

Mars map

The stranded Chinese astronauts have returned, but space junk threat still remains.

Introducing Caelus, an open source astronomy dashboard

Dust samples from moon's far side show debris from rare, water-rich meteorites

A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry

Astronomers have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled

Astronomers spot rogue planet devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second

The mystery of how the outer-atmosphere of the Sun can be hotter than its surface may have finally been cracked

Unexpectedly, X-rays reveal Betelgeuse's binary companion is a young, Sun-like star

Rogue planet gains 6 billion tonnes per second in record growth spurt

This month prominent peer-reviewed journals have published two papers that link apparent flashes of light seen by a telescope 70 years ago to potential artificial objects in space, providing an opportunity for UFO enthusiasts to see how extraordinary claims are tested—and often undone—by science.

Astronomers announce discovery of a "Super-Earth" exoplanet - 4 times the mass of the Earth - in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star just 22 light years away

Scientists capture an image of two black holes orbiting each other for the first time, the observation confirmed the existence of black hole pairs

Astronomers Find Mystery Dark Object in Distant Universe

Prospect of Life On Saturn's Moons Rises After Discovery of Organic Substances

New results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, now published in Nature, reveal how light reflecting off Bennu’s surface bears witness to impacts across the solar system.

A detection of phosphine in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf 54 light-years from Earth deepens the mystery of phosphorus chemistry throughout the Milky Way

The new study investigates coronal heating using remote diagnostics from solar radio bursts with in situ measurements near the Sun

Research has uncovered a colossal bridge of neutral hydrogen gas linking two dwarf galaxies

The most enthralling rock yet found on Mars—a speckled hunk of mudstone that may contain evidence of ancient alien life—is still worth getting excited about

NASA Scientist Disputes Claim That Mysterious Object Headed Into Solar System Was Sent by Aliens

NASA scientists say our Sun's activity is on an escalating trajectory, outside the boundaries of the 11-year solar cycle

Astronomers Discover Previously Unknown Quasi-Moon Near Earth

Astronomers Discover Massive Molecular Cloud Hidden in Milky Way. The Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC) is about 60 parsecs—or 200 light years—long.

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved

Scientists have discovered a huge solid mass measuring 600 kilometers (373 miles) long in the innermost core of Mars, which challenges our understanding of the Martian core's composition

Using JWST, for the first time, astronomers have managed to find tentative evidence for an atmosphere on a rocky planet in a clement orbit around another star some 40 light-years from Earth

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