MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of an exoplanet that is “tidally locked”...
The mass of dust and bright swirls of stars in this image are the distant galaxy merger IC 2431, which...
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new...
A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation of any brown...
By a stroke of luck, a team led by Dutch Ph.D. student Martijn Oei has discovered a radio galaxy of...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center...
Astronomy experts say they originally misread the secrets of the night sky last month: it turns out that a rocket...
The moment that debris from destroyed planets impacts the surface of a white dwarf star has been observed for the...
SpaceX’s newest fleet of satellites is tumbling out of orbit after being struck by a solar storm. Up to 40...
Astronomers from Leiden Observatory have developed a new method to find distant quasars and better distinguish them from other objects...
A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile have found evidence of...
Scientists have produced the largest and most accurate virtual representation of the universe to date. An international team of researchers,...
