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

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

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 ...

Astronomers have detected drifting water clouds in deep space, far from any planet or star. This discovery strengthens the ...

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

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

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

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

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Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought, ...

Scientists had a mixed response to this initial announcement. While the findings were exciting, some astronomers pointed out that the DMS signal seen was weak and that the hycean nature of K2-18b ...