Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

Some stars explode into a nova quickly; others can take more than a month. Scientists are only beginning to understand why.

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for ...

A University of Glasgow spinout which creates advanced 3D images of inaccessible structures using cosmic rays has won a national award.

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A red dwarf 130 light-years away has just rewritten the rules of space weather. For the first time, astronomers have captured definitive evidence of a massive coronal mass ejection from a star other ...

Learn how to draw the Celestial Sphere using Web VPython in Python Physics! This guide will walk you through creating a stunning 3D representation of the night sky, perfect for astronomy enthusiasts ...

Scientists have confirmed that colossal collisions between galaxies trigger titanic eruptions in the centers of those ...

University of Iowa researchers have discovered a method to "purify" photons, an advance that could make optical quantum ...

The cosmos has served up a gift for a group of scientists who have been searching for one of the most elusive phenomena in ...

The longest gamma-ray burst ever observed has UNC Chapel Hill astronomers questioning the very nature of these cosmic ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) is pleased to announce the appointment ...