These mysterious objects can have masses several million or billion times that of the Sun and are so dense that they warp space time around them. As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a ...

Chile forms committee to balance astronomy and energy development ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Imagine a distant world, light-years away, where intelligent beings scan the cosmos, searching for hints of life. If their ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

MeerKAT has already played a key role in uncovering some of the hidden treasures of the southern sky since it became operational in 2018, and in addit ...

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

It is as wide as the wing span of a 747 and has a 1 in 83 chance of hitting the Earth when it arrives in 2032. David Moore of ...

Astronomers from MIT, the University of Liège in Belgium, and other institutions have stumbled upon a truly bizarre planet—an ...

Ohio State astronomy professor Adam Leroy is the 2025 recipient of the Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal, established in 1886, is awarded every four years to a researcher or pair of ...

The telescope is a project of the European Southern Observatory intergovernmental research organisation and is under ...

A giant asteroid hurtling towards Earth could wipe out Ireland with a series of devastating earthquakes or massive tsunamis, ...