The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the Universe), states ...

There are plenty of awesome objects in the universe, made more marvelous by scientists’ ability to image and understand the laws and processes that make them possible. Each year, researchers make new ...

'Glitching' in this context refers to launching a rock with an extremely specific set of initial conditions precisely calculated to destroy the outer dynamic system(s). The word is borrowed from video ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

Astronomers have detected one of the darkest objects ever seen at a record cosmic distance—only with the assistance of ...

A dazzling new image produced using both the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed one of the most detailed views of the universe to date, NASA has announced. Created ...