Last week at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, astronomers presented some of their most recent and exciting finds from the James Webb Space ...

Harvard University-affiliated astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid zooming precariously close to Earth — only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched by Elon Musk ...

Researchers say they are puzzled over the discovery. Astronomers have detected fast-repeating radio bursts from a distant "dead" galaxy that should not contain the energy to produce these types of ...

The recent burst, called FRB 20240209A, throws that theory into question. Now, astronomers must consider that not all fast radio bursts come from younger galaxies and stars. The powerful burst was ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada When astronomers first spotted WASP-127b in 2016, the exoplanet's strange composition intrigued them. With a radius larger than Jupiter's but less than a fifth of the ...

According to astronomy, when you wish upon a star you’re a million years too late. The star is dead, just like your dreams. When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true.

But those powerful gales are nothing compared to the supersonic winds that astronomers have just discovered on the giant exoplanet WASP-127b. Reaching up to a whopping 20,505 miles per hour—or ...

As US astronomers cheer the completion of the state-of-the-art project to rejuvenate the iconic Hale Telescope, one key collaborator is locked out of the celebrations and banned from exporting to ...

Astronomers have detected winds howling at about 20,500 miles (33,000 km) per hour on this large gaseous planet, located in our Milky Way galaxy approximately 520 light-years from Earth in a tight ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge planet with the fastest wind speeds ever observed in the universe. The gas giant WASP-127b, which is located over 500 light-years away from Earth, has winds that ...

The case of mistaken identity was resolved swiftly in a collaboration between professional and amateur astronomers. But some astronomers say it is also emblematic of a growing issue: the lack of ...