In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a "sonic boom from a jet fighter." ...

In a major yet surprising turn of events, astronomers have recently discovered a newborn planet orbiting around a young ...

Astronomers have taken a zoomed-in photo of a star outside the Milky Way for the first time, the European Southern ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

Two giant black holes causing strange flashes of light about one billion light years away from Earth have been detected by ...

Ohnaka and his team found an egg-shaped shell of dust and gas surrounding WOH G64 - a dying star about 160,000 light-years ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of binary star systems, consisting of a white dwarf and a main sequence star ...

Scientists announced Thursday that they had taken the first zoomed-in image of a dying star beyond our galaxy. The star is ...

The new observations reveal a star puffing out gas and dust, in the last stages before it becomes a supernova. While ...

The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA’s Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new super-Jupiter exoplanet as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newfound alien world, located some 1,430 ...