Good news for Earth... maybe not for life Astronomers ... It consisted of the brightening of a background star (located 24,000 light-years away) by around 1,000 times. The objects or lenses ...

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful ...

This Earth-like planet, with a mass approximately ... companion were detected when they passed in front of a distant ...

Only over time did astronomers realize that as the Earth moved around the Sun, some stars shifted in position relative to the background of others. They realized that this shifting occurred ...

In fact, it takes Jupiter 12 Earth-years to complete one orbit. So it can be seen slowly moving across the entire night sky with respect to the background stars—and it’s therefore Earth’s ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light ...

The temperature of elementary particles has been observed in the radioactive glow following the collision of two neutron ...

World leaders are converging Tuesday at the United Nations annual climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan although the big names and powerful countries are noticeably absent, unlike past climate talks ...