The origin of the Moon has fascinated scientists for decades. The most widely accepted theory suggests that the Moon formed ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star is estimated to be 64 percent the mass of the sun. That makes Gaia-4b one of ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2 ... But astronomers put the brakes on the exciting discovery 17 hours later — after learning they’d mistaken a cherry-red sports car for ...

The superstructure "Quipu," recently identified, spans 1.3 billion light-years, challenging our understanding of the ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon may originate in diverse ways.

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...