What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

A new survey of the Milky Way has unveiled billions of celestial objects in our galaxy's plane. The survey was taken using the Dark Energy Camera, which the US Department of Energy built, and it ...

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves. University of ...

XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely rare class ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

New research suggests that "little red dots" seen in the early universe may actually be a new class of cosmic object: black hole stars. If this theory is correct, it could explain how black holes ...

Unlike the moon with which we are familiar, which is 2,159 miles wide and located about 239,000 miles away, according to NASA ...