Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four massive but extremely low-density worlds orbiting the star appear to be ...

You might think only billion-dollar telescopes and professional observatories can contribute to cutting-edge space science.

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory ...

"When Arp 220 is observed as a whole, it's one of the best places in the universe for astronomers to study how gravity, star formation, and powerful winds work together with strong magnetic fields to ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

CHENGDU CITY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA, January 19, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The planetarium industry has witnessed ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after more than two decades.

A UBC Okanagan-led research project has given a group of international scientists their clearest view yet of the Milky Way's magnetic field, revealing that it is far more complex than previously ...

The signals provide astronomers with a look into the life, and death, of a massive star exploding into a supernova.