Astronomy

The James Webb Space Telescope is giving us our first glimpse of stars in the early universe.

Telltale evidence gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope suggests we’re closer than ever before to finding elusive Population III stars

Our planetary neighbor Venus becomes a brilliant beacon in the sky each time it reaches its greatest orbital distance from the sun

Magnetic fields help to explain why some stars are spinning more slowly than astronomers thought they should

The death throes of a massive star in the galaxy M101, located just 21 million light-years away from Earth, are entrancing professional and amateur astronomers alike

Saturn’s surprisingly young rings and record-breaking bounty of moons make the planet a ripe target for springtime sky watchers

White dwarfs, Earth-sized exoplanets, early galaxies and even Saturn’s moon Enceladus are on the agenda for JWST’s second year in space, but exomoons and others miss out

A book-shaped rock spotted by the Curiosity rover on Mars is the result of an interplay of wind, water—and the human brain

Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem

Betelgeuse, the red star at the shoulder of the constellation Orion, has been acting strange, raising hopes for the spectacle of a lifetime

Hints of water vapor on a world called GJ 486 b could just as well come from the planet’s host star

The first asteroid belt ever found outside the solar system is more complex than expected