Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

"Whether you want to explore dark energy, dying stars, galactic powerhouses, or probably even entirely new things we’ve never ...

Pope Leo visited the Vatican’s internationally-recognized observatory, called the Specola Vaticana, where he was able to look ...

Public observing sessions at the Owl Observatory in Kalamazoo are free to the public. Two more will take place this summer on ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.

Compound, or catadioptric, telescopes combine lenses and mirrors for a compact option, suitable for both planetary and ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

Point a telescope at the sky and you might spot a shooting star, the moon, a planet, or a distant galaxy. The Royal ...

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

The world's most powerful telescopes, including the James Webb Space Telescope and FAST, are revolutionizing our ...