This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.
Xi Zhang, a professor of Earth and planetary science at UC Santa Cruz, has discovered that an exoplanet classed as a ...
A strange, layered structure in deep space has captured astronomers’ attention, looking uncannily like a cosmic sandwich ...
Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...
Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.
When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be violent and chaotic. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...
The James Webb Space Telescope blasted off from a launchpad in French Guiana in 2021, before reaching a spot in orbit a million miles away. It soon began breaking cosmology.