Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how planets form.

Japanese researchers took inspiration from our eyes, creating an artificial retina that could give today's machine vision ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet called TOI-6894b, orbiting a star that should be far too small to have formed it.

A spiral-shaped structure in the Oort Cloud, long thought to be a featureless shell of icy debris, has been revealed by ...

A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen's ...

A small red dwarf star, TOI-6894, is defying astronomers' expectations by having a gas giant planet in its orbit.

Astronomers have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects are likely to be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later this year.

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...

Most of the time, astronomers use high-tech telescopes and expensive equipment to make observations. This time, they just had ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Scientists have identified a new source of energetic particles near the Sun. These definitive observations were made by instruments aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which detected the powerful ...