Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

The most distant known star in the universe is no longer a faint, anonymous point of light. With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have turned that remote beacon into a richly detailed ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided some of the clearest views of the Egg Nebula, a stunning cosmic structure located about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Published on ...

New telescope instruments are pushing galaxy observation far beyond what was possible a decade ago. Advances in space telescope technology now allow astronomers to study billions of galaxies across ...