Emirates Astronomy Society achieves a historic milestone by photographing the Crescent Nebula, 5,000 light-years away, ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

Citizen scientists using the Kilonova Seekers platform spotted a stellar flash 2,500 times brighter than before, allowing ...

If our solar system seems stable, it's because our short lifespans make it seem that way. Earth revolves, night follows day, ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists spotted thin and thick disks in galaxies as far back as 10 billion years ago ...

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

Astronomers have been trying to detect atmospheres on planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, but bursts of radiation from the star make ...

The 10-year survey is the primary mission of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on a mountaintop at the edge of Chile’s ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...