Dr Ryan MacDonald, lecturer in extrasolar planets in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of St Andrews, ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before. The gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

A new AI-powered tool has reduced astronomers' workload by 85%—filtering through thousands of data alerts to identify the few ...

Astronomers have detected an explosion of gamma rays that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

Astronomers discovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf forged in a stellar smash-up and unmasked only by Hubble’s ...

Most stars in the Milky Way move at steady speeds, orbiting the galactic center in regular paths. But astronomers have ...

"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

What exactly does the boundary of the universe look like? Xiao Wang initially imagined it to be like the Earth's atmosphere, ...

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

Growth in satellites and debris will make the whole sky brighter and more difficult to study. Image credits: Rafael Schmall / NOIRLab, CC BY In the clear skies of the Chilean desert, astronomers used ...