Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond ...

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

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from ...

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

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

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

Astronomers not involved in the research have additionally expressed some skepticism about the study’s conclusions. “I think ...

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

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

The footage, which is seven seconds long, was taken using a specialised solar telescope – Hydrogen Alpha. The video shows the ...