Picture walking outside on a dark, cloudless evening. You look up to admire the stars—maybe even a planet, if you’re...
Professional and amateur astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the help of artificial intelligence, identifying a unique triple star...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth...
Measuring the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, is an active area of research among astronomers...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest...
The discovery of a “weird” and unprecedented galaxy in the early universe could “help us understand how the cosmic story...
The discovery of an Earth-like planet 4,000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy provides a preview of one...
Since the first sighting of the first-discovered and largest asteroid in our solar system was made in 1801 by Giuseppe...
A comet is expected to risk having its tail clipped on Friday by flying perilously close to the sun, promising...
Earth will capture a miniature, “second moon” this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny...
In a surprise finding, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive...
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one...