A new study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by researchers including István Szapudi of the University of ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Using the radial velocity method, an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet orbiting a ...

A surprise twist has emerged in the tale of an exoplanet that was devoured by its star. Rather than the star expanding to engulf the poor defenseless world, the world itself was complicit in its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed hot gas forming a ring around the star and an expanding cloud of cooler dust, ...

It was once thought that when an aging star engulfed a planet it would be a dramatic event. Now, the Webb telescope has ...

The Lyrids are the product of a comet called C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) that has a roughly 422-year orbit around the Sun; their radiant point, or place in the sky from which they seem to fall, is close to ...

It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

Washington: In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the time, they believed the planet met its doom as the star puffed up ...