New simulations suggest sub-Neptune planets may be drier than thought, challenging the "water world" hypothesis and reshaping ...

Astronomers around the world have confirmed over 6,000 exoplanets, a milestone reached in September 2025. Billions more are waiting to be discovered.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new details in Messier 82 (M82), home to brilliant stars whose light is ...

Just as Iowa's political landscape was starting to settle, U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst has again upended the playing field. Can ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, to occur in a single day.

Black holes are among the most intriguing cosmic bodies in space. The Pop III.1 model uses primordial stars to explain how ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

Energetic starlight is reshaping a vast molecular cloud 160,000 lightyears away. Hubble has captured a new generation of ...

Hubble’s latest look at Messier 96 reveals a warped spiral galaxy glowing with rings of stellar birth. The new details shed light on how stars emerge and influence their surroundings.

Take an inside look at NGC 7456, a spiral galaxy that showcases energetic light, dark dust lanes, and the beauty of newborn ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...