Asteroid 2006 WB will zoom by Earth on Tuesday, and astronomers say it’s one of nearly 40,000 near-Earth objects, which is ...

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

For the past two months, a small asteroid named 2024 PT5 has been keeping Earth company, acting as a "mini-moon." Now, it's ...

Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the FU Orionis' mechanisms. In 1936, the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of NGC 4694, a galaxy that possesses unusual properties that complicate its ...

Ultimately, Gebhardt and other astronomers hope to use AI to probe one of the big questions looming in the night sky: Why ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

With the help of a three-dimensional map of stars near the sun, astronomers can search for alien planets that might hold life. The map was created by NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, which has ...

Scientists have obtained an unprecedented image of WOH G64, a massive red supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as ...

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 snapped the first detailed close-up image of a star outside the Milky Way, and what they found is amazing.