Some galaxies that should have ceased forming stars long ago are defying expectations. Anew theory proposes the existence of ...

Amateur astronomy had gone through a revolution ... news and images of storms raging on Saturn and stars exploding in distant galaxies. Amateur superstars emerged, armed with the skills, tools ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Galaxies may not be as simple as "young and blue" or "old and red." A new idea from astrophysicist Charles Steinhardt proposes a third type: red star-forming galaxies that break the mold. These galaxi ...

More than ten years ago, the Herschel space telescope stopped working. Thanks to a new analysis, its data may now have solved ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor, based in Royston, U.K. His focus is reporting on science and health. He has covered archeology, geology, and physics extensively. Ian joined ...

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 ...

An international team led by UNIGE shows that red and dead galaxies can be found only 700 million years after the Big Bang, ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...