"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...

A massive doomed exoplanet on a death spiral toward its parent star has three possible catastrophic fates. A massive planet ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a nearby ultra-diffuse galaxy designated F8D1. The new ...

Vesta is passing an 8th-magnitude field star, offering a great opportunity to see the space rock’s motion on the sky over just a few nights.

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

People have been asking why space is dark despite being filled with stars for so long that this question has a special name – Olbers’ paradox. Astronomers estimate that there are about 200 ...