The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

NASA has released some stunning images of dying stars, offering the most in-depth view of the planetary nebula NGC 1514 to ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...

The 18-year-old won $250,000 for training a machine learning model to analyze understudied data from NASA's retired NEOWISE telescope ...

High school senior Matteo Paz stunned the astronomy world by uncovering 1.5 million previously unknown cosmic objects using a ...

A California high school student has made an extraordinary contribution to astronomy by developing an artificial intelligence (AI) system that uncovered 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space ...

NASA recently tracked asteroid 2024 YR4, which initially showed a 3 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2032. New data shows it's no longer a threat, but the incident highlights the need for strong ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star.

Every now and then, the star at the center of a planetary system exhausts its hydrogen supply and collapses into a red giant. As the star's outer layers expand, they encroach on planets' orbits, ...