The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

A tiny, dense stellar corpse in a nearby galaxy is pumping out so much energy that, on paper, it should have blown itself ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Few stars have rattled astronomers quite like Betelgeuse, the swollen red beacon in Orion that dimmed so dramatically in recent years that many wondered if it was about to explode. Now a fresh twist, ...

Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has picked up the light from a massive star that exploded about a billion years after the ...

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This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors using observations made between May and December 2025. NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope — launched in ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...