Shrouded by a swirl of gas and dust, a gas giant, roughly three to ten times the size of Jupiter, was found in a new ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining cutting-edge data from the ALMA observatory and ESA’s Gaia mission. Initially ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

SpaceX’s efforts to dim its Starlink satellites will likely be effective, at least for one major observatory. But the ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

“This pioneering interstellar navigation demonstration and its accompanying publication show that a deep-space mission can ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2021, is currently the most powerful space observatory ever built.

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...