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

KiDS J0842+0059, with a mass around 100 billion times that of the Sun, has remained frozen in time for centuries.

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 ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...

A prototype antenna for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. If funded, the project would greatly expand U.S. radio astronomy capabilities.