An international team of researchers has discovered a massive molecular cloud that, if we could see it in our sky, would ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

In the grand puzzle of the cosmos, one question continues to defy easy answers: how fast is the universe expanding?

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

The trio is a rarity—and when all of its unusual traits are considered together, it is unique.