The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...

Astronomers Discover 'Cosmic Fossil' Galaxy That Remained 'Frozen in Time' for Billions of Years in Space Fossils are a great ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Save $100 on this 5-inch telescope and enjoy views of Saturn's rings, the belts of Jupiter and bright deep space objects like ...

Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...