NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) has captured a stunning view of supernova remnant ...

Astronomers have obtained remarkably detailed images of two stellar explosions -- called novae -- just days after they began.

Hubble reveals a chaotic spiral galaxy whose close encounter with a neighbor has ignited a spectacular burst of star birth.

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

The “Seven Sisters” of the Pleiades are part of a much larger complex that can help reveal our galaxy’s deep history ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have contributed to new insights into the most long-lived cosmic explosion ever recorded. The event was a gamma-ray burst that remained ...

That ethos continued in 1993, when Damon and Deanne Howes headed into the wilds of south-western Tasmania (Issue 36, Oct–Dec ...

In 1892, astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard thought he saw a bright star near Venus, but then it vanished. We may now know why ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

A team of astronomers believe they've witnessed, for the first time, a star exploding in a mythical "superkilonova." ...

In a cosmic fireworks display, scientists have observed two objects colliding around a bright star 25 light-years from Earth.