The JWST has spotted Alaknanda, a massive, well-formed grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just 1.5 billion years after ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warns that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS might be a deliberately steered alien probe—an ...

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, where stars forge elements and planets cradle potential life, the arrival of an ...

Amateur observers and social media users sparked viral claims that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) ...

Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare. Astronomers confirmed not ...

Could a faint glow from 13 billion light-years away be the light of the universe’s very first stars? Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope think they may have just caught such a ...

Craters, clusters, rings, islands, and young stars -- the universe is filled with wonder no matter where you point a camera, ...

Jupiter's moon Io stands alone among the solar system's moons. It has more than 400 active volcanoes, and its surface is home to more than 100 massive volcanic mountains, some of which are taller than ...

Silicon monoxide gas detected by JWST signals the sublimation and recondensation of silicate dust into crystalline minerals. These minerals combine into pebbles, the earliest building blocks of ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Benjamin Pope receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Big Questions Institute. After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous “supermassive dark stars” powered by dark ...