What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

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

Radio astronomers like a bit of peace and quiet, so they're sending an historic first radio telescope to the Moon. To block ...

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

The urban astronomy movement #PopScope has set up telescopes on sidewalks that have brought 26,000 people closer to the night ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the initial stages of a solar system's formation around a distant star, HOPS-315.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured amazing imagery of the Chameleon I dark molecular cloud. It harbors the "deepest, ...

The under construction ESO Extremely Large Telescope in Chile was captured in 2025 and 2023 with the sun rising behind it.

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

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