An international team of researchers has discovered a massive molecular cloud that, if we could see it in our sky, would ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

"The key planet-formation processes in protoplanetary disks remain an active matter of research. One promising mechanism to ...

Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

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

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?