The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are ...

The College of Natural Sciences welcomed more than a dozen new tenured and tenure-track faculty members in 2025.

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Astronomers using the Webb Telescope may have found a new type of object: cold, glowing black hole stars from the early ...

A team of international astronomers have identified a cosmic oddity unlike anything seen before: a galaxy bent by gravity into an Einstein Cross with not four but five distinct images.

Astronomers at Penn State have nicknamed the objects “universe breakers,” which may be unusual black hole atmospheres and could represent a missing link in the fast growth of supermassive black holes.

Iconic spaceships from Star Trek has been spotted in space – according to playful rocket scientists. The team from NASA ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of Messier 96 captures a galaxy twisted by cosmic interactions. The new details reveal brilliant star-forming regions glowing in its outer edges. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, F.

Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...