In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope takes a snapshot of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, some 15 million light-years away from Earth. Credit: ESA / NASA / CSA / A. Adamo Scientists have found an unusual neon ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

Do the building blocks of life exist beyond the Milky Way, and can we identify them? This is what a recent study published in ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

An old galaxy reveals clusters of young stars that have formed in an unusually synchronized fashion, challenging the idea ...

Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...

Astronomers recorded a strong challenging FRB network burst that came from outer space in February 2024. The detection of FRB 20240209A disproved earlier ideas about the source of these intense radio ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...

Confirming a long-held theoretical prediction, a survey of 26,000 white dwarfs found that the hotter they are, the more bloated are their outer layers. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...