The international astronomical community is celebrating. The mega-project by AES Andes, a subsidiary of the U.S.-based AES ...

"We were very surprised to see this structure," said astrophysicist Theo Khouri of Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology.

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

A newly found comet is well on its way toward the sun, set to reach its nearest point come spring. The comet, dubbed C/2026 A1, was discovered by a group of French scientists at a Chilean observatory ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere ...

The green hydrogen and ammonia project would have increased light pollution at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Cáceres Holgado is originally from Cusco, Peru, and is currently studying astronomy, physics, and astrobiology at the University of Kansas. When she was 17, she traveled thousands of miles to pursue ...

Using HARPS and HARPS-N spectrographs, astronomers have observed a nearby K-type star designated HD 176986, known to host two ...

There are a lot of moving pieces when it comes to building the world's largest telescope.