Five Year of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was launched nearly five years ago, and the ...
Yet the new findings imply that what telescopes detect may be dominated by processed, not primordial, chemistry. This complicates efforts to use such objects as probes of their natal environments. The ...
The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas, ...
The observatory’s proximity to Kirkwood Avenue, a hotspot for IU students, helps attract people outside of the astronomy ...
If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.
The Wow! Signal, a mysterious 1977 radio burst, is being revisited by scientists who explore a potential link to the ...
On Episode 184 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look at why space can be scary with a survey of some of the best (and some of the most laughable) movies about critters from outer space!
About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.
The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...
The risk of a cosmic body striking the Earth—or exploding in the atmosphere—may be higher in 2032 and 2036, researchers have ...
NASA's NICER telescope halts its mission after a key motor fails; engineers attempt to salvage eight years of space science.