Even that minuscule amount of time might be enough to get a probe up to a respectable interstellar speed, but only if it's tiny and the laser beam doesn't fry it. At most, the laser would need to be ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant ...

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

Carbon, which is found in the human body, takes an unusual journey after the demise of the the stars that create the element.