High on a ridge 5,250 meters above sea level in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, a new eye onto the infant ...

The extrasolar planet, dubbed TWA 7b, also has the lowest mass of any planet that has been directly imaged beyond the solar ...

For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The Vera C Rubin observatory, home to the world's most powerful digital camera, promises to transform our understanding of ...

The Giant Magellan Telescope, one of the largest telescopes ever built, is entering the final design phase and is expected to be completed by the 2030s.

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...