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

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

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

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

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

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

Astronomers not involved in the research have additionally expressed some skepticism about the study’s conclusions. “I think ...

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

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

PSR J0311+1402 flashes every 41 seconds — quite slow for a pulsar. It could help bridge the gap between fast- and ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that ...