The 2025 Lyrid meteor shower is expected to peak overnight Monday, April 21, into the morning of Tuesday, April 22, according to NASA. During the Lyrids ' peak, 10 to 20 fast and bright meteors can be ...

The Webb telescope has spotted exoplanets circling white dwarf stars, proving that planets can survive their star’s violent ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...

However, this world is not in our Solar System, in fact, its outside our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have detected oxygen in JADES-GS-z14-0, the most distant galaxy ever observed, located 13.4 ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ... encompasses Earth, such as where and how many galaxies there are that surround the Milky Way.

Earth couldn’t have existed longer than the ... However, by this point, astronomers had measured that the oldest stars in the Milky Way were at least 12 billion years old. A striking discovery ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

It's the Cosmic Cafe, a seasonal sandwiches-and-more spot located at Mt. Wilson Observatory. By "seasonal" we simply mean ...

For generations, sailors around the globe have reported a mysterious phenomenon: Vast areas of the ocean glow steadily at ...