Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

Sydney, an astronomy intern at Zion National Park with Scientists in Parks, answers some of the internet’s most asked ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...