For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Euclid space telescope sent some images back to Earth during an early testing phase. While reviewing the pictures, astronomer ...

"The idea that they can somehow obliterate these sources is dead wrong — scientists in general and astronomers in particular ...

Astronomy, a hobby that literally and metaphorically connects us to the infinite universe, can be as captivating as it is ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

A research team may have discovered a star with an exoplanet that is so fast that both will leave the Milky Way.

This is a photo of a spider and a fly nebula taken for a total of 20 hours at the end of January in Berkshire, England. The ...

"They're so rare, and they're incredibly useful scientifically," said Conor O'Riordan of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...