Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

Clear skies at the Vollink Family Observatory let SEMO students and locals spot meteors, comets, and Saturn’s moons, ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a supermassive black hole.

A software developer from Iceland has successfully hacked a satellite's flight computer to run a port of the infamous 1993 ...

Astronomers have traced the 12-billion-year journey of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, believed to be the oldest comet ever ...

I/ATLAS has unexpectedly become bluer than the Sun, hinting that it could be emitting light, not just reflecting it — a sign ...

For decades, scientists have wondered how the Sun’s outer atmosphere — the corona — burns millions of degrees hotter than its ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a thick irradiated crust that no longer resembles its home star system, simulations and ...

As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS hurtles toward the Sun this week, astronomers brace for a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event that ...

During the day, this patch of land in sparsely populated Central Texas is not remarkable. Eleven buildings, nearly identical, look like ...

When the astronomer first saw the image she was 'excited', but then an entirely new feeling took over. Find out more.