Scientists have spent six years building a sophisticated simulation system that creates "pixel-perfect" data that mimics what ...

Artist's conception of the four planets around a young star observed in this research. The puffy planets may be losing their ...

Over its planned two-year mission, the $488 million telescope will scan the entire night sky every six months and collect ...

Astronomers say the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has detected an asteroid that spins faster than other space rocks of its size.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Throughout December, the SETI Institute appeared across leading science and media outlets, reflecting the SETI Institute’s continued leadership in research and public engagement.

Plans for a new Scottish Dark Sky Observatory (SDSO) have been submitted more than four years after the old one was destroyed ...

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Bigger than Hubble and launching as soon as 2029, the Lazuli Space Observatory would be the first-ever full-scale private ...

The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about ...

The researchers describe Cloud-9 as a failed galaxy, a "relic" or remnant of the processes that gave rise to early galaxies. Alejandro Benitez-Llambay suggested that the ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...