Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

A team of astronomers has detected a mysterious “heartbeat” signal originating from deep space, capturing the attention of the global scientific community. This unique signal, reminiscent of a steady ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...

Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation ...

Astronomers with the MeerKAT radio telescope uncover the universe's most distant hydroxyl gigamaser, revealing new insights into cosmic phenomena and paving the way for future discoveries. Explore how ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...