Astronomy

Babies show innate rhythm as NASA’s Artemis II mission hits delays, a major solar flare erupts and concerns grow over PFAS “forever chemicals”

The sun is experiencing a violent solar storm, releasing one of the strongest solar flares seen in the past 30 years

After a year of protests from astronomers, authorities have abandoned plans for a giant, light-polluting renewable-energy facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert

The six-year results from the Dark Energy Survey highlight unresolved tensions in standard cosmological theory

An exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors

Astronomers puzzled out minuscule distortions in images of faraway galaxies taken by JWST in order to chart the invisible

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer

A fresh look at the Helix Nebula captures new details of the cycle of stellar life and death

The James Webb Space Telescope should soon be able to spot the first generation of stars in space

Stars emit lots of green light, but our eyes don’t let us see them that way

Puzzling red spots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by dense cocoons of gas