Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

But those claims were quickly met with pushback. Independent analyses of the same JWST data suggested the team's evidence for ...

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

The recently discovered galaxy, known as SDSS J011754.86+095819.0, or dE01+09, seems to be one of these "runaway" systems.

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

A NASA mission designed to better understand space weather and its potential hazards is set to launch, alongside two other missions sharing the same rocket.

An exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star 124 light-years from Earth made headlines around the world in April 2025. Researchers at ...

An international study led by researchers at São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Brazil has identified a little-known but potentially significant threat: Asteroids that share Venus's orbit and may ...

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the ...

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

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

A team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover 12 ancient black holes from 12.9 billion years ago.