NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

In this video, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully recreates Hubble's most famous image, showcasing stunning ...

With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has broken the record for the oldest, most distant galaxy detected to date by humans. In a preprint study, still awaiting ...

Astronomers continue to track puzzling cosmic signals, from the 1977 Wow! Signal to new phenomena like ASKAP J1832–0911 and ...

Astronomers have dreamed of building an interstellar probe for decades. But why go to the trouble of flying all the way to an alien star system when the alien star system can come to you?

Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better understand the process of stellar life and death.

Artificial intelligence tools are making waves in almost every aspect of life, and astronomy is no different. An astronomer explains the history and future of AI in understanding the universe.

How Astronomers Are Saving Astronomy From Satellites — For Now Even the most powerful telescopes are in peril as orbits above Earth fill with thousands of new satellites.

Scientists worldwide are already using artificial intelligence to sort through huge amounts of data, suggesting that the future of astronomy belongs to AI.

A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from a peculiar celestial object. The ...

Given those starting conditions, astronomers can crank the handle on their cosmological models to predict how fast the universe should be expanding today. This kind of work is where the figure of ...