The hunt for potentially habitable rocky planets in our galaxy has been the holy grail of exoplanet studies for decades.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

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From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

Behold! The 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards shortlist has been released, showcasing a spectacular array of ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive and previously unknown cloud of gas and dust in a quiet corner of our Milky Way galaxy.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever recorded, according to new research. Gravitational waves were predicted by ...