Astronomers used Webb to find the star behind supernova 2025pht, revealing how thick dust can hide massive red supergiants.

Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can't watch it being built, you can't interview the architects, all you have are the structures ...

A star thousands of times larger than the Sun just underwent a dramatic transformation that's a prelude to catastrophe.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it had responded by launching a ‘first wave’ of drones and missiles targeting Israel.

Some of the universe's most extreme explosions leave behind almost no trace. The original explosion is unseen, but our observations can capture the long-lived echo it leaves behind as the shock front ...

Crew-12 holds a news conference in Houston. Read full article: Crew-12 mission leaders discuss launch, mission prep The four members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the International Space Station ...

The latest episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy centers on the mystery surrounding Deep Space Nine's beloved captain Benjamin Sisko — and even includes a cameo of sorts from actor Avery Brooks.

"We studied the last several orbits before the merger, when the entwined magnetic fields undergo rapid and dramatic changes, and modeled potentially observable high-energy signals." When you purchase ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...

The morning of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion 40 years ago still remains the coldest Jan. 28 ever on the Treasure Coast. In 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger and crew were lost in an ...