Even astronomers who study peculiar outer space objects have their favorites. Here are some interstellar bodies that have won ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that Betelgeuse—the giant red star that forms Orion’s shoulder—wasn’t alone. Now, a ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues ...

When Space Shuttle Discovery touched down for the last time at Kennedy Space Center Runway 15 on March 9, 2011, it brought to an end a 27-year career of spaceflight.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope finds a red supergiant star before it exploded, offering new clues to why their supernovas ...

Three scientists who unravelled some of the deep mysteries of black holes, the awe-inspiring pockets of the universe where space and time cease to exist, have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

A discovery of binary stars could be the first step in building a more complete picture of how our galaxy formed, according ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a massive red supergiant star just before it exploded, finally solving a cosmic ...