By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new giant "planet," plus a new brown dwarf.

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

The York County Astronomical Society will offer a public starwatch 7-9 p.m. Saturday at their Observatory at John Rudy County ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and outbursts. The central regions of galaxy clusters host the universe’s ...

The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist with technology similar to ours, could they detect Earth? A team of SETI researchers ...

The Solaris Solar Observatory, the first of its kind in Israel, was inaugurated this weekend in the Druze town of Isfiya in ...