Astronomers have used a novel technique to find evidence of a secret "buddy" star orbiting Betelgeuse, one of the brightest ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

A team of astronomers have made a fascinating discovery that forces us to rethink our understanding of how dead stars behave.

The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...

A new study suggests the universe might collapse in 20 billion years. This challenges the idea of endless expansion.

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

The findings confirm a long-standing theory first proposed in the early 1900s. More importantly, it sheds new light on how ...

Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, have found evidence of a fast-growing black hole in an unexpected place and ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...