A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...

Astronomers watched a distant star dim for months and found a metal-rich cloud that may be the aftermath of a massive ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Astronomers have observed a Sun-like star dim dramatically for nearly nine months after being obscured by a vast cloud of gas and dust. A huge cloud filled with vaporized metals has been spotted ...

Scientists are sharpening the methods used to search for alien artifacts inside our own solar system, drawing on recent ...

I’m a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik’s launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I’ve witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

It’s not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

New astronomical facilities, such as the under-construction Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and planned 30-meter-class telescopes, and new instrumentation on existing optical and infrared (OIR) ...