Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

A faint flash from the cosmic dawn has revealed itself as the oldest supernova ever confirmed, its light having traveled 13 billion years to reach Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope captured the ...

Burst from M-dwarf star could be powerful enough to strip the atmosphere of any planets that orbit it, with implications for ...

Imagine an object sailing through the black void, a piece of cosmic shrapnel that was formed in a star system light years ...

In Grand Forks, UND installed a $5 million laser telescope that will let students communicate with satellites using optical ...

Galaxy mergers activate supermassive black holes, Euclid data shows, revealing more AGN in merging systems and new insights into galaxy evolution ...

An increasing number of people are out chasing the northern lights and other celestial phenomena in northern Minnesota.

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

A sudden black hole flare unleashed stunning, near light speed winds that echo the Sun’s most powerful eruptions.

A New Mexico college campus is working towards having its own astronomy center and it’s not just a place to gaze at the stars ...

Cosmic dawn galaxies seen by JWST reveal hidden clues about dark matter and keep rival theories about its true nature alive.

Astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx) at the University of Montreal ...