Witnessing a meteor, or \"shooting star,\" is a dazzling event caused by tiny space rocks burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

A new study suggests yet another theory for a possible extra planet in our solar system, likely of a size between Mercury and ...

The star is known as SDSS J0715-7334. It is a red giant star in the halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The metallicity of this star is so low that even the most distant, most primordial galaxies ...

Astronomers hunting for evidence of the light from the first stars and galaxies have found that the universe was warm, rather than cold, before it "lit up." ...

Astronomers have identified the most pristine star ever observed, located in the Milky Way's halo. This ancient star, with ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered seven supermassive black hole-powered quasars surrounded by veils of dust ...

The discovery that black hole growth may not be limited to galactic centers could shed light on the role supermassive black ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

The galaxy’s heart hides a cosmic giant that shouldn’t exist so soon after the Big Bang but could explain the mysterious ...

By listening for ghostly radio echoes from the early Universe, scientists believe future Moon missions could determine what ...