Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new ...

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

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our ...

New Tarantula Nebula observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are combined with imagery from ...

A newly discovered distant object that astronomers have dubbed “The Cliff” could solve a riddle posed by some of the first ...

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

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

For the past decade, gravitational wave astronomy has opened our eyes to amazing cosmic phenomena thanks to LIGO, the Laser ...

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...

The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft's Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument scanned the north pole of Jupiter. A 3D movie of ...