Betelgeuse is a colossal star that shines brilliantly in the constellation Orion, approximately 600 light-years from Earth. Immense and unstable, this red supergiant is in the final stages of its ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...

The Mauve telescope, developed by London-headquartered start-up Blue Skies Space, is the size of a small suitcase and carries ...

It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometres of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal ...

The cosmos is getting its own red carpet. The inaugural Global Space Awards will launch later this year with world-renowned ...

A pair of Sydney Ph.D. students helped sharpen the view of humanity's most powerful space observatory—without leaving Earth.

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Astronomers spot a red supergiant star hidden in dust just before it exploded, solving a long-standing mystery about missing ...

An interstellar visitor is zipping through the Milky Way, and a team of Michigan State University researchers is keeping ...