Astronomers have discovered an alien world so strange it seems to break nearly every known rule of planetary science. The planet, named TOI-4507b,...

Astronomers have already discovered nearly 6,000 planets outside our solar system, but none of them are true “Earth twins.” Scientists are...

Astronomers have already discovered nearly 6,000 planets outside our solar system, but none of them are true “Earth twins.” Scientists are...

Astronomers from the ANU have discovered binary stars in a dense star cluster - the first step in understanding how our galaxy formed.

About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per second. Based on recent...

Astronomers have made an exciting breakthrough in the search for the universe’s most mysterious substance—dark matter. They have discovered the...

For millions of years, a frozen fragment of ice and dust wandered alone between the stars, like a sealed bottle drifting in a cosmic ocean. Earlier...

Astronomers have found a developing ring system around Chiron, an icy body between Saturn and Uranus. This discovery provides a rare look at how rings...

ON October 6, 1995, an astronomical turning point occurred: the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. This world, named 51 Pegasi...

Astronomers have made a stunning discovery that reveals just how ancient some of the water in our universe really is. Using the powerful Atacama Large...