Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the darkest spots on Earth, a crown jewel for astronomers who flock to study the origins of ...

After decades of searching, astronomers may have finally stumbled upon the first moon known to exist beyond our solar ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Astronomers have captured unprecedented, detailed images of two stellar explosions—known as novae—within days of their ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive rotating structure in deep space, a 50-million-light-year cosmic filament where 14 ...

Indian astronomers have identified a surprisingly mature, Milky Way-like galaxy from the universe’s early era. Named ...

Using the Large Phased Array (LPA) and the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...