Well, fast-forward a dozen centuries, and along come Copernicus asking “What if Earth isn’t at the centre after all?”; Kepler asking “What if the orbits aren’t circular, but elliptical?”; and Newton, ...

In October 2017, astronomers detected something extraordinary, an object named 'Oumuamua, the first known interstellar ...

The punishing radiation appears to be causing the planet to shed its atmosphere at a rate of at least 1 trillion grams per second, according to a new study involving NASA 's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Rather than being smooth and calm, the cloud is full of fast-moving, tangled filaments of gas—like a three-dimensional ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The best time to view the Perseids is between midnight and dawn, according to the society. A good day to view them is Thursday, July 24. That's when the new moon is, according to the Farmers' Almanac.

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

"What is remarkable is that the time between pulse pairs seems to follow a choreographed pattern." Using the world's most ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...