The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Pluto was once dismissed as a frozen leftover at the edge of the solar system, until we finally got a close-up look. What we ...

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

First detected in 2004, the dwarf planetHaumeaquickly stood out due to its rapid rotation and elongated form. But the 2017 ...

A new study reveals a rare-breaking white dwarf star, dubbed RXJ0528+2838, that is somehow generating a rainbow-like "bow ...

"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...