A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of ...

A new study published as a pre-peer-reviewed paper on arXiv and accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests that a massive gas giant, HD 206893 B, located 133 light-years from Earth, ...

“Looking at things at a very, very fast rate allows us to observe weird and wonderful phenomena,” Salamat says, calling the ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

The astrophysicist was one of the first researchers to bring astronomy closer to the general public and to advocate the ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

The neural network approach uses multiple or “deep” layers that learn to identify increasingly complex features in data. The ...

Astronomers found an iron bar in the Ring Nebula that doesn't match any known stellar phenomenon. Scientists can't explain ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

V1674 Herculis was a record-breaker. It erupted in the constellation Hercules on June 12, 2021, and skyrocketed to peak ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

Radio telescopes let you study the universe by collecting faint radio waves from distant objects. To see extremely small ...