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

THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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