A new study shows that the Small Magellanic Cloud is being pulled apart by its larger sibling on the Milky Way's periphery, ...

Alan Hale, co-discoverer of the Hale–Bopp comet, has died at 68. His work in astronomy and education left a lasting impact on ...

Astronomers studying the atmospheres of several intensely heated exoplanets uncovered an unexpected pattern that may reveal a hidden property of these distant worlds.

Using more than a decade of observations from the VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), researchers measured the ...

The team, which included Nobel laureates, debunked claims that cosmic expansion was slowing down.

The Chicxulub impact may have actually helped nurture life while destroying it, too. When you purchase through links on our ...

A new telescope technology—measuring just 6 millimeters (0.24 inches) in diameter—could improve how future space missions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope finds more evidence supporting an explanation for "little red dots" in the early universe.

Astronomers have detected the earliest known flickering quasar, a blazing object powered by a supermassive black hole from ...

Above a certain threshold, galaxies stop growing , no matter how much raw material they have on hand. The question is: what ...

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer and it involves "reading between the rings," the ...

The Solar Eclipse August 12, 2026 that will pass over the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, Atlantic Ocean, northern Spain and the ...