Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Some people in town today for the Yakima River Canyon Marathon may have been looking for a little running inspiration.

Explore Earth and its relationships with a plethora of planets, stars and galaxies in its cosmic family, Laniakea, the ...

The classic 1971 sci-fi thriller The Andromeda Strain is still heralded as one of the most influential films (and books) in the genre. The adaptation of Michael Crichton's beloved novel blended ...

For years, astronomers have sought a way to directly observe the atmospheres of exoplanets, worlds orbiting distant stars. Unlike indirect detection methods, such as transit observations or radial ...

there is still much to learn about Andromeda XXXV. The researchers’ detailed observations were completed with Hubble, but the newer James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has yet to view the system.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...

Data from NASA's Great Observatories has been combined to produce this unprecedented image of the central region of the Milky Way. A new mission aims to deepen the understanding of a phenomenon ...

"We thought they were basically all going to be fried because the entire universe turned into a vat of boiling oil." ...

which is the material that fills our whole solar system," PUNCH mission scientist Nicholeen Viall said.