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

The researchers found a huge clump of dark matter about 1.4 million light-years west of the cluster’s center.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet dubbed K2-18b.

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

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 ...

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

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