Astronomers have discovered two objects that at first looked like a well-known stage in star formation, but also have features that don’t fit that at all. Their forthcoming paper announcing the ...

A cosmic object with the slowest-ever known rotation has been detected by Australian radio astronomers. The discovery may ...

Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...

Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

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

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is ...

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to ... a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around the mass of the sun dies, then this dead star is performing an ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...