Researchers report that ASASSN-24fw dimmed for nine months due to a ringed companion, likely a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter, based on observations published by Universe Today and the Royal ...

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) offers new insights into cosmic expansion and dark energy, gathered over six years and 758 nights of observations.

Astronomers watched a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy vanish over a decade, providing rare evidence of a "failed supernova" forming a black hole without exploding.

Astronomers observed a heart-shaped gas and dust cloud around red giant Mira A before Valentine’s Day, using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope and ALMA in Chile.

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Astronomers have spotted a heart in the cosmos — not Cupid's doing, but a dying star shedding its layers — just in time for Valentine's Day.

A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

Explore a hidden Atlanta gem where you can see a real Apollo spacecraft and enjoy an immersive planetarium experience, all without spending a dime ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

India has unveiled plans to build two new optical-infrared telescopes and a dedicated solar telescope in the Himalayan desert ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

A fresh analysis of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák observations suggests it abruptly reversed its spin after its last ...