Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Throughout December, the SETI Institute appeared across leading science and media outlets, reflecting the SETI Institute’s continued leadership in research and public engagement.

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Gas within the cluster, which existed merely 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang, is at least five times hotter than ...

NASA announced Monday the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds ...

NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for future observatories.

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

Why now: In April, current Caltech President Thomas F. Rosenbaum announced he'd retire after the 2025-26 academic year.

Astronomers discovered nine unusual objects in space that look like stars but behave like galaxies - challenging what we know ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected metallic iron dust, silicon carbide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the nearby dwarf galaxy Sextans A, revealing early dust formation processes.

JWST has identified nine distant, compact galaxies that do not fit existing categories, raising new questions about how galaxies formed in the early Universe.