In a startling new observation, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a planet with an atmosphere made almost ...

The universe is a strange place. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) orbiting observatory recently highlighted ...

JWST found a carbon-atmosphere planet orbiting a pulsar, challenging current models of how planets form. Scientific progress often comes from data that don’t fit our current understanding. This idea, ...

Where does gold really come from? It turns out that the glittering metal on Earth has its roots in violent cosmic events — ...

A kilonova formed by colliding neutron stars releases gamma ray bursts powerful enough to vaporize atmospheres within a ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

A couple months back, astronomers officially confirmed the existence of “Betelbuddy,” Betelgeuse’s long-suspected companion ...

In the 1960s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Impressively, capturing an image of Betelbuddy was only the start of the discoveries. The researchers had anticipated the ...

Astronomers have discovered the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, revealing that a black hole literally consumed a star ...