A research team led by University of Hawaii astronomers has found two remarkably similar gas giants orbiting very close to their parent red-giant stars.
The...
There may be small, rocky planets in the nearby Alpha Centauri triple-star system that have been overlooked, according to a new study published in the...
A team of scientists at the Australian National University has created the most comprehensive map of the southern sky ever.
The Orion Nebula in the new...
A team of researchers reports the discovery of an eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, a Sun-like star approximately 2,545 light-years from Earth in the constellation...
The OmegaCAM, a wide-field imager installed on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope at Cerro Paranal in Chile has captured a glittering view of the stellar nursery...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular star cluster Messier 79.
The stars in the globular star cluster Messier 79 look a lot like...
WASP-18b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet located approximately 325 light-years from Earth, has a stratosphere that’s loaded with carbon monoxide, but has no...
An international team of astronomers has found that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could be a scaled-up version of Earth, and also discovered the...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed the telltale signs of 11 low-mass stars forming close – within just 3 light-years...
Based on the combination of data taken 12 years apart by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have pinned down for...
A research team led by Georgia State University astronomers has discovered some of the oldest stars in our solar neighborhood by determining their locations...
Astronomers have spotted a new type of extremely energetic cosmic explosion they think originates from a very massive star or the environment of a supermassive...
A rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth has been discovered orbiting a nearby low-mass star, thanks to new data gathered by ESO’s High Accuracy...
An international team of astronomers led by Las Cumbres Observatory has found a remarkable object in a nearby galaxy: a star that exploded multiple times...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected dust belts around Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our Sun....
A team of professional and amateur astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler mission has spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets orbiting KIC 3542116,...
Zeta Puppis, also known as Naos, is a blue supergiant star, one of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. It is about 60 times more massive than...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a rocky exoplanet with an orbital period of 8.9 hours.
EPIC 228732031b orbits so close to its parent...
