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

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

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals ...

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Andy Byron, who has found himself at the center of a social media firestorm over a Coldplay concert video, was the CEO of a ...