An international team of scientists has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to uncover surprising details about the atmosphere of a strange,...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by mysterious, planet-sized objects drifting freely through space, unattached to any star. These cosmic wanderers,...

Mathematics has a branch called topology that studies the properties of shapes and objects that remain unchanged even when they are stretched or bent....

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous...

The mission will complement the work being done by other infrared telescopes in space, such as the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space...

Future Space A few months ago, astronomers detected a bona fide spacetime speedster in outer space – and in doing[...]

Astronomers have long believed that planet-forming disks—clouds of gas and dust around young stars—last only about 10 million years before...

Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, looks like a boring, crater-filled world. It doesn’t seem to have much going on compared to some of...

Astronomers have made an exciting discovery about how young stars form in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy near the Milky Way. Using...

Finding a reliable treatment for post-amputation pain has been difficult, but a new study suggests that a simple procedure called hydrodissection may...