The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

Both teams releasing papers detected the object independently, using different sets of data. Both teams found the same ...

The theorists predict that the beginning of the end will be in about 10 billion years — less than the present age of the universe.

Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, may not be alone. And its potential companion may be responsible for ...

The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...

The findings confirm a long-standing theory first proposed in the early 1900s. More importantly, it sheds new light on how ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Until now, it was unclear whether the conditions around a nascent star were too extreme to allow the building blocks of life ...

Astronomers have identified a rare class of galaxies in our cosmic backyard that were previously believed to exist only in ...