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 ...

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.

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.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...