Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ...

James Webb Space Telescope discovers 138 asteroids, including 6 on Earth-bound paths. Small, decameter-sized threats ...

In 2017, astronomers found an object they’d never seen before. Now, it’s part of a growing category of elusive ‘dark comets’ ...

Analysis - Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire needs wood to keep burning, a star relies ...

Carrying out simulations to try and discover what best explains the orbits of these objects, the team found that a model that ...

Exploring space means pushing forward, reaching new heights year after year—and this year flew higher than ever. Public and ...

As the 9th American institution to invest, Northwestern University expands the Giant Magellan Telescope international consortium to 15 members from the United States, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, ...

We know that interstellar objects occasionally visit our solar system. So far, we have only discovered two interstellar ...

Stars are born, live and die in spectacular ways, with their deaths marked by one of the biggest known explosions in the Universe. Like a campfire ...

The spiral arms of Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, have been imaged by the Dark Energy Camera in ...

This month marks three years since the James Webb Space Telescope was first launched, which still feels something like a ...

Where did Earth’s water come from? It’s a fundamental scientific question that has never been answered. In fact, NASA reports that we can only observe and understand 5% of the universe — with a ...