"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian woman astronomer whose pioneering work at the University of Cambridge has ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...

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

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

Many galaxies, including our own Milky Way, are characterized by a flat, extended, rotating stellar disk. These disk galaxies commonly contain two ...

This figure aligns with formation timelines for the Milky Way itself, where stellar ages can be measured ... images provided by JWST help answer one of the biggest questions in astronomy: was our ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away ... according to new results of higher resolution images produced using new improved techniques to reanalyze radio astronomy archive data. These newly ...

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

Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a blindingly fast flash of radio waves that appeared to be coming from somewhere ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The satellite spotted a mysterious 150-second X-ray flare, named EP240414a, from a dying star 4 billion light-years away.