NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has achieved a groundbreaking feat by definitively detecting crystalline ice water in the ...

For centuries, humans have been trying to figure out the ultimate destiny of the universe, will it collapse, freeze, or ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

A Russian research team led by Grigory Uskov has discovered 11 new Seyfert-type active galactic nuclei using data from the ...

Weighing in at 10 to 20 times the mass of our sun, HW2 is a rare example of a massive protostar caught in the act of ...

Researchers have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, are moving in opposing directions along two distinct axes. They found that stars closer ...

Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...

A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explores how binary star systems—two stars born together ...

The universe is dying much sooner than scientists previously thought. But there's still going to be a long wait until then.

The data revealed that gas from HW2's accretion disk is collapsing inward at breakneck speed, feeding the star at an ...

The quirks of light moving through gas are the cause of stellar twinkling, which can be a bane—and sometimes a boon—for ...

Stars that pass close to the solar system could pull planets out of alignment, sending them hurtling into the sun or out into ...