These icy bodies contain organic molecules — and don’t fall into any known category of celestial object we’ve seen before.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At the heart of our galaxy, in the turbulent region surrounding the ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

Astronomy enthusiasts were treated to a glimpse of the Milky Way while gazing from the Dorset coastline, with one lucky ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close ...

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...