This week is International Dark Sky Week. Lights that are aimed upwards or not properly capped illuminate the atmosphere and ...

A bold geochemical model reveals that TOI‑270 d, a sub‑Neptune 73 light‑years away, is likely a giant rocky world cloaked in ...

Astronomers have found more ORCs in the years since those initial discoveries, and some of them also appear to have a galaxy ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

A new study led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has decoded the puzzling atmosphere of TOI-270 d, a distant exoplanet located just 73 light-years from Earth, revealing it to be a ...

People are still puzzling over why nearby objects and distant galaxies move away from us at different speeds. There may now ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage ...

A new study suggests the universe may rotate -- just extremely slowly. The finding could help solve one of astronomy's biggest puzzles.

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...