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...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkable black hole that has been sending out powerful radio waves for more than eight years, something never seen before. The...

What is the multiverse? The idea that the universe we inhabit is just one of many parallel universes gets a superhero shout-out in “Doctor Strange...

Black holes are already some of the strangest objects in the universe, but a new discovery suggests that when two of them collide, there...

A white dwarf star that completes a full rotation once every 25 seconds is the fastest spinning confirmed white dwarf, according to a team...

Scientists from the University of Liege and NASA's TESS telescope have made an exciting discovery about a distant star system. The system, named TOI-2096, is...

Astronomers have witnessed an extraordinary cosmic catastrophe: a black hole tearing apart a massive star and devouring it piece by piece. The dramatic event, nicknamed...