Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

Learn how sulfur-based molecules essential to life may have formed before the first living systems appeared.

Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Published in Nature Astronomy, the findings represent a first: while helium escape has been observed before, this is the ...

Welcome to the latest astronomy space news for December 1, 2025! This month, we’re looking at how galaxies grow, what the ...

A CU Boulder-led study finds that Earth's early atmosphere could have produced key sulfur biomolecules essential for life, ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...

The importance of darkness, solar eclipses, Mars, the Webb Telescope and just how dangerous space is are the subjects for ...