When we look up at the night sky, most of us see the same patterns of stars that the ancient […] ...

The galaxy, cataloged as COSMOS2020-635829, was spotted in data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and has a redshift of z = 1.156, meaning astronomers are seeing it as it existed about 8.5 ...

Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million ...

To capture higher-definition and sharper images of cosmological objects, astronomers sometimes combine the data collected by ...

It would be understandable if you stopped thinking as much about Pluto after it was “demoted” from being considered one of the nine planets sharing the Earth’s solar system to being classified as a ...

Recent research has uncovered a barred spiral galaxy formed 11.5 billion years ago, making it one of the earliest known galaxies that contains a stellar bar. The research was supported by Yingjie ...

How any Earth-sized exoplanets exist, and how do we find them? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address | Space ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its gaseous ...

You can’t officially name a star after your Valentine. But you can plan a romantic evening of star-gazing and point out the officially named stars visible at this time of year. Betelgeuse, Sirius and ...

The initial complete Moon of 2026 is anticipated to make a dramatic entrance by illuminating the United Kingdom’s winter skies on 3rd January with an extraordinarily brilliant and full glare. Named ...

Ex-Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot recently spoke to The Times about the Coldplay kiss cam scandal that derailed her personal and professional life over the summer. Cabot resigned from her job after ...

AI-generated image of red giant star orbiting a quiet black hole in the Gaia BH2 system. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Space Engine Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting ...