Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), in collaboration with astrophysicists from the ...

"Stars like the sun don’t just stop shining for no reason." ...

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo.

More planets could be homes for aliens than we thought, scientists say - Planets we thought were not inhabitable might ...

The familiar structure of the Lyra Nebula (or Ring Nebula) has just revealed an unexpected feature. At the heart of this celestial jewel, well-known to astronomers, lies a rectilinear ...

SALT astronomers have confirmed that the massive star WOH G64 is still a Red Supergiant, not a Yellow Hypergiant as previously speculated. New observations using the Southern African Large Telescope ...

U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet 1st Class Alexandra Skeen, class of 2026, has been selected as a Holaday Scholar, earning a fully funded, two-year postgraduate scholarship to study in the United Kingdom.

A research team has investigated quasar variability by tracking optical to mid-infrared (MIR) wavelengths of variability ...

New data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows where crystalline silicates form around young stars and how disk outflows transport them to colder, outer regions.

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been used, by international astronomers, to solve a “cosmic mystery”. Located ...

Observations of the thermal energy in a baby galaxy cluster 12.4 billion light years away suggest much more energetic early cluster growth than current theories assume ...

Jürgen Popp, a biophotonics researcher based in Jena, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Jena, and Scientific Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology (Leibniz-IPHT), ...