A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers at UCL (University ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

Scientists at NASA are intensifying observations of a massive interstellar comet that briefly vanished behind the Sun before ...

NASA data reveals a dramatic blue glow from the ancient interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Discover why this 8-billion-year-old ...

Move over the James Webb Space Telescope, there’s a new kid on the block. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which has promised to answer questions about dark matter and energy, is finally here after an ...

Imagine hearing a sound that began its journey before our galaxy even existed. That is what astronomers are doing now. They ...

Since the James Webb Space Telescope went into operation, red dots in its images have puzzled researchers around the world.

Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, the scientists honed in on stars, all between one and eight times the mass of the sun, ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...