Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time identified the progenitor of a nearby supernova -- a red supergiant star cloaked in thick, dust-rich shrouds that ...

For the first time, a much younger version of the sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in the galaxy by astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. The bubble—called an "astrosphere" ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Improving research on planetary formation comes from an out-of-this-world innovation made right here in Michigan. In previous models, simulations resulted in an amorphous blob, as if the batter was ...

Understanding how massive stars evolve and return energy, momentum, and metals to their surroundings is a central problem in ...