Discover the epic 9-year journey of NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it races through the solar system to uncover Pluto’s ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

In 2025, astronomers sharpened their view of the planetary system around Proxima Centauri — the sun's closest stellar ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently discovered a rare exoplanet, whose composition has baffled scientists ...

Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new brown dwarf about 60 times more massive than Jupiter. The newfound substellar object, ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

This year NASA unveiled new discoveries beyond our solar system, the count has surpassed 6,000, with several thousands more ...

Astronomers on Mauna Kea found the first space object on which NASA’s Roman Space Telescope can test its imaging technology.

Updated models suggest only 60,000 to 250,000 Earth-like habitats may exist in the Galaxy, with far fewer capable of ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...