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

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that ...

Astronomers have spotted a distant planet shedding matter with each orbit around its host star, generating a comet-like tail ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did it! This has opened the door to new dreams and challenges." ...

A loud bang and a bright green ball of light seen in the skies above Australia have left astronomers perplexed about the ...