Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

A surprisingly well-formed spiral galaxy has been spotted just a billion years after the Big Bang, challenging long-held ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought, ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet ...

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made an unusual discovery, finding a planet which is in the process of disintegrating. And as it decays, it is leaving behind a ...

A planet 140 light-years from Earth that is rapidly falling apart has been spotted by astronomers after they detected an ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the Perseus galaxy cluster, located 240 million light-years from Earth.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a new ghost galaxy, that does not contain dark matter.

John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA space shuttle, which delivered Hubble to space 35 years ago, and it's no secret why both ...