Astronomers directly imaged a massive young planet orbiting two tightly bound stars at solar-system-like distances.

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

Jupiter currently shines as a brilliant silvery "star" in the constellation Gemini the Twins, low in the east-northeast sky ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Carl Sagan once said, “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” These words ...

With sapphire waterfalls, lava rain and orbits around dead stars, these distant worlds push the limits of what’s possible.

The year 2025 marked significant advancements in exoplanet science, revealing new discoveries and fresh perspectives on known worlds.

Scientists discover asteroid spinning once every 1.88 minutes—the fastest rotation ever found for a large space rock. Five ...

Far from being solid bullets of rock, many asteroids are fragile clusters of debris that spin so quickly they flirt with self ...

With Jean’s life being a regular cycle of sacrifice and rebirth, the many deaths of Jean Grey are something of a cornerstone ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS stuns astronomers with a puzzling triple-jet configuration as it flees the Solar System. New 2026 ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...