The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

For budding astronomers and space experts, telescopes bridge the gap between them and space. To take your love of the planets ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.

The planet is the fourth world to be spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which was designed to map a billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy, cataloguing their masses ...

orbiting above the Earth’s distorting atmosphere so that astronomers can make high-resolution observations into planets, stars and galaxies. Second author Alex Thompson, also a PhD student at ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

With a nickname like Big Sky country, it's no surprise Montana is the ultimate destination for this year's celestial events, ...