On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

Sometimes, in order to support an idea, you first have to discredit alternative, competing ideas that could take resources ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

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

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our understanding of the universe. These advanced instruments, located on Earth and in ...

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

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

Large telescopes are custom-built and rare. There is no standard practice or model. Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...