Earth has a newly discovered—albeit temporary—companion in its journey around the sun. In research published this month in ...

Many planetary systems are born in slightly tilted protoplanetary disks, which would explain the misaligned orbits from the ...

The beads appear above a swirling hexagonal jet stream at the gas giant's north pole, and could emerge from interactions ...

With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...

From crafting magical potions to building bears, Canberra's spring offerings read more like a choose-your-own-adventure book than a holiday program list.

Astronomers from the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy have identified a new category of events that they found ...

Scientists have used the Gaia Space Telescope to create a 3D map of star kindergartens within the Milky Way, and you can fly through it.

The GW190412 merger revealed a black-hole recoil moving faster than 50 km/s. Gravitational waves allowed its 3D motion to be reconstructed. A research group led by the Instituto Galego de Física de ...

As China's first self-developed advanced submillimeter wave telescope, once completed, the XSMT is expected to join the ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare “extremely stripped supernova” that exposed the inner silicon layers of a dying star, confirming theories of stellar fusion and offering new insight into how ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James ...

New simulations suggest Earthlike planets may be much more typical than previously thought whereas water worlds may not.