NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a...
A massive black hole has torn apart one star and is now using that stellar wreckage to pummel another star...
Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disk galaxy seems as orderly as present-day...
A Canadian-led international study has revealed new insights into the atmosphere of GJ 9827 d—an exoplanet orbiting the star GJ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren’t as many as we thought. Using...
Every second, more than 3,000 stars are born in the visible universe. Many are surrounded by what astronomers call a...
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...
