In 2006, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope nicknamed Herbig-Haro 49/50 the "Cosmic Tornado" for its helical shape, but couldn't ...

Led by Naman Bajaj of the University of Arizona and coauthored by SETI Institute scientist Uma Gorti, the research examined ...

Astronomers just captured a never-before-seen detail of how matter makes its way from stars into planets and eventually even living things—and they did it entirely by accident. One night in November ...

James Webb has captured a striking new infrared view of NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, revealing the dramatic aftermath of a dying Sun-like star. At its center, a scorching white dwarf is blasting ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say they have discovered what could be a completely new type of cosmic object, which they have named a "black hole star". The finding may ...

Until just over a decade ago, ring systems were thought to be exclusive to the giant planets of the solar system, such as ...

Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data from the universe's deep past. Their "powering engines" might resemble a newly discovered ...

A Saturn encounter sent 450P onto a warmer orbit, where buried ice and carbon dioxide may now be awakening the tiny Centaur.

Using nearly eight hours of observations from JWST’s NIRSpec instrument, the researchers mapped the movement of gas deep ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre object from just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines far too brightly ...

For four years, little red dots (LRDs) have been the hottest topic in astrophysics. Astronomers first noticed them in observations that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) made in 2022. The LRDs ...

Researchers thought these objects were distant galaxies or stars obscured by dust. Then they found one that didn’t meet any previously established criteria. That would be the unpronounceable MoM-BH*-1 ...