About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to ...

Astronomers have captured a haunting image of a “cosmic bat” spreading its wings across deep space. This nebula, 10,000 light-years away, glows crimson as newborn stars ignite clouds of gas and dust.

Kent Gibson, an Emmy-winning producer and sound designer, died Oct. 23 in hospice care in Seattle after a struggle with ...

This revelation means scientists might have to rethink Type II supernova models, which would result in some of these cosmic ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using ...

What you're looking at here is the aftermath of a sun-like star that eventually reached the end of its life and poofed out ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant ... The discovery redefines our understanding of cosmic ...

Astronomers have recently unveiled a remarkable discovery: an interstellar tunnel that links our solar system to distant ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...