Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

Sifting through the noise of space is no easy task, even for astrophysicists. But a new grant from the National Science ...

Astronomers captured a glimpse of the innermost layers of a massive star before it exploded in a supernova, changing their ...

"When we saw the results, it actually fitted this long-standing question of how these hypervelocity white dwarfs formed. It was super cool." ...

Scientists using NASA's Juno spacecraft have discovered a new plasma wave in Jupiter's auroras, offering fresh insight into ...

Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were puzzled when one that had been stable for more than a decade almost disappeared for eight months.

That appears to be changing, with adjustments to the astronomy curriculum that faculty believe will make an astronomy minor more accessible to students with a deep interest in the subject but a ...

Liquids can provide some especially tricky challenges for space travelers, but new research from the University of ...

But the newly discovered supernova, dubbed SN 2021yfj, displayed a startling different chemical signature containing silicon, ...

A cosmic jet aimed at Earth reveals how blazars hurl particles to extreme energies, solving a long-standing mystery.

Scientists from around the world are gathered in Maryland this week for the so-called "Super Bowl of astronomy." the 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

UC Riverside researchers show scalable quantum systems are possible with noisy chip links, defying hardware limits.