Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.

Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new kind of exoplanet that challenges how scientists classify worlds beyond our Solar System. The planet, L 98-59 d, appears to contain a vast ocean of molten ...

The first time I heard about galaxies without dark matter, I was sitting in my very first graduate class at the University of São Paulo. A team had found a small, strange galaxy that appeared to ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations.

An oddly-behaving star led two UW astronomers to capture rare evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar ...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

URUMQI, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Growing up in a Kazakh family in northwest China, Guljaina Kazezkhan often spent her childhood summer nights lying on a carpet in the yard and gazing at the stars. In the ...

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have captured a stunning image of a glowing nebula in the Milky Way that resembles a vast cosmic hawk swooping down on its prey. The nebula in ...