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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers first spotted the asteroid on August 7 using the South Africa-based observatory of the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Despite predictions that the ...

Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since the first detection of the phenomenon in 2007. The enigmatic signals ...

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 zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered ...

Now is a perfect time to buy, too. January 29th's new moon doesn't just signal the start of the Chinese New Year, it's an absolute gift for astronomers. Why? Because without the moon's reflective ...

Jan. 17, 2025 — The Universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous -- and highly debated -- results had shown: The Universe is expanding ...

An international team of astronomers has detected mysterious chirping signals in an unexpected region of space, raising major questions about how they're created. Known as chorus waves, these signals ...