The Orion Nebula is one of the brightest and most famous objects in the night sky. It can even be seen without a telescope, and...

Astronomers have discovered a rare giant planet outside our solar system that could help scientists better understand how large planets form and evolve. The newly...

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery inside the remains of a giant star that exploded about 1,600 years ago. They found newborn stars surrounded by...

Astronomers have taken a closer look at a giant planet called Beta Pictoris b, hoping to solve one of the biggest mysteries in planetary...

What do you do when a fireball lights up the sky and every camera meant to capture it comes up empty? Last spring, a bright...

An unusual visitor from deep space is helping scientists learn more about what the universe was like billions of years before our solar system...

When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it explodes in a powerful event called a supernova. These explosions are among the most...

A nearby planet that could potentially support life may be more Earth-like than scientists first believed. New observations suggest the planet, called GJ 3378b, is...

While studying planets beyond our Solar System (6,316 confirmed exoplanets and counting), scientists have discovered some very interesting systems. Consider TOI-201, a compact system populated...

In 2024, astronomers detected a rocky exoplanet, GJ 3378b, orbiting a red dwarf sun just 25 light-years from Earth in the direction of the...

The number of satellites orbiting Earth is growing at an incredible speed, and scientists say it could soon change the night sky forever. A new...

Scale in the universe is hard to understand from a purely human perspective. Many times the math just doesn’t sit well with our brains that...

Stars are gravitationally fastened to their galaxies and move in concert with their surroundings. But sometimes, something breaks the bond. If a star gets too...

A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, and a year is one revolution around the Sun...

In a new study, researchers observed water molecules moving around the dayside of the Moon. The researchers used an instrument aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter...

Astronomers have captured striking new details of powerful jets shooting out from a black hole, revealing just how much energy these cosmic systems can...

Space is full of objects that push the boundaries of imagination, but few do it quite as effectively as a black hole. At its simplest,...