This artist's concept visualizes a super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

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Nitrous oxide sold in colorful tanks with candy-like flavors that consumers are inhaling to get high is creating a “veritable ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...