James Webb telescope helped solve a decade-long mystery about the universe’s expansion rate, shedding new light on the cosmic ...

The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations ...

Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home in Hertfordshire, ...

While astronomers continue to search for the mysterious "ninth planet”, a possible giant hidden in the extremities of the ...

NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals around a Sun-like star, some 155 light-years away from Earth. The star, ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

A new study of the Gobi Wall in the Gobi highland desert of Mongolia reveals a multifunctional role beyond defense; data from ...

For instance, Neptune migrated outward, switching places with Uranus, and pushed a lot of the small, icy bodies into the ...

As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

Scientists hunting for the hypothetical Planet Nine have discovered a potential new dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, in the outer ...