New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Telescopes allow scientists to analyse starlight passing through distant planets’ atmospheres, revealing clues about their ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...

This emission is strongest under conditions which are intermediate between those in the interior of nebula and those in the dense cloud.

The distant planet Neptune stands still against the background stars of Pisces in the early-morning sky, still visible close ...

This Thursday, we'll have our first full moon of astronomical summer over Butler, but for all practical purposes the moon ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...