Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

Astronomers say they've found an "interstellar tunnel" near our solar system that potentially leads to the vicinity of other ...

The researchers urge the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which approves satellite deployments in the U.S., to ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to find ...

When the sky suddenly erupts with pulses of powerful radio energy, scientists spring into action. These extreme events, known ...

Scientists have identified one of the largest carbon-based molecules in space yet. It could help us decode the origins of ...

Gliese 229 B, discovered in 1995, is a binary system of two brown dwarfs orbiting each other, in orbit around their parent red dwarf star.

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered a lightweight ... an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and an adjunct scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, in a press release.

Amy Simon of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, lead author of the paper published recently in The ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...