On Sept. 23, a spacecraft will launch with a clear mission — to keep a constant watch on the sun to help protect Earth from ...
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
Scientists from the University of St Andrews have discovered that ions in solar flares can reach scorching temperatures more ...
What happens when you hurl molecules faster than sound through a vacuum chamber nearly as cold as space itself? At the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...
Over the course of more than two decades, researchers at the University of Bern have developed the so-called "Bern model," a ...
Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...
The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in ...
Webb telescope captures a young giant star firing off an 8-light-year gas jet, and revealing how massive stars form.
NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...
Mysterious red dots spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be an entirely new kind of astronomical object ...
The protostellar source at the center of this research is Sh 2-283-1a SMM1, located approximately 26,000 light-years from Earth. This region, characterized by low metallicity—only one-third of the ...