Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies ...

AlCl has been detected in the atmospheres of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars, which are in the late stages of stellar ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

Small telescopes in Chile are first on Earth to cut through the cosmic noise, peering back more than 13 billion years to the ...

"By studying these planets, we can better understand how planets form in general, a bit like peering into the past of our ...

An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...

Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for ...

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based telescopes. This polarized light scattered by the universe's very first stars over ...

A neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes has found that the one at the center of the Milky Way, ...

NASA satellites possess extraordinary capabilities. They use laser technology for faster data transmission. Satellites ...

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading ...