The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

Astronomers believe this barred spiral galaxy could be the oldest example of its kind ever observed. Research led by Daniel ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured images of Lupus 3, showing T Tauri stars and gas-dust regions, providing data on early ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

This collection of new images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases protoplanetary disks, the swirling masses of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

One of the main questions in exoplanet science concerns M dwarfs (red dwarfs) and the habitability of exoplanets that orbit ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...