For the first time ever, astronomers revealed the birthplace of an energetic jet blasted by a newborn star using the Atacama ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

Some things we see in space appear to outpace light. Now we are learning to harness these bizarre optical illusions to ...

Astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of how massive stars are born, revealing a dramatic interplay between ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

The GWTC 4.0 catalog records 128 new gravitational wave signals, revealing mergers of black holes and neutron stars detected by LIGO.