Give them a constellation prize. A group of international scientists discovered three ultra-massive “Red Monster” galaxies capable of forming their own stars faster than the average nebula. The ...

A team of astronomers using a Yale supercomputer have determined for the first time that galaxies in denser environments are as much as 25% larger than their counterparts in less dense regions of the ...

From our small blue planet to the farthest reaches of the observable cosmos, this breathtaking journey explores the true ...

Five years ago, astronomers revealed a spectacular collection of other worlds: the TRAPPIST-1 system. Newspapers around the world printed the discovery on their front pages: Astronomers had found that ...

MOST telescope can measure the light of nearly 2,500 celestial objects at a time Scientists are celebrating a new era of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) unveiled magnificent new images from its Euclid space telescope, representing the agency's first scientific discoveries from early observations. The project, which ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...

Astronomers poring over four years of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have discovered a star that’s 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets. “We thus show that Earth-size ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some of the strangest exoplanets that scientists have discovered so far. When you ...

Mysterious radio waves might be winds from stars that exploded billions of years ago, according to new research. A new study suggests these strange, galaxy-sized waves could actually be galactic winds ...