Active since last week, the shower is formed from a comet’s debris and is forecast to produce the most fireballs overnight.

The rotating disk galaxy, mostly made up of dark matter, was discovered within a larger cloud of fast-moving hydrogen gas.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even ...

Fresh data from the James Webb Space Telescope provide more evidence for what some consider a biosignature — but debate is ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? Researchers show that this is not due to the random pull of the ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' Center for Exoplanet Science and another from the European Southern ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...

Shreejaya Karantha is a science writer specializing in astronomy, covering topics such as the sun, planetary science, stellar evolution, black holes, and early universe cosmology. Based in India ...