Using two infrared space telescopes and a 23-year gap, scientists may have spotted a mysterious, slow-moving object beyond ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a massive molecular cloud that, if we could see it in our sky, would ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

An awe-inspiring look at how scientific knowledge builds upon itself gradually – one ingenious measurement at a time ...

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

The trio is a rarity—and when all of its unusual traits are considered together, it is unique.