New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in ...

SN 2024PI is special because it's classified as a Type Ia supernova. A white dwarf, which is an incredibly dense, small "dead" star (about the size of a planet), must exist before this special ...

Young supernovas could have spread water out into the cosmos, causing planet formations earlier than originally thought.

Only after that could rocky planets form, and by extension, habitable planets. That’s been axiomatic in astronomy.