A journey across 440 light-years to the young star HD 135344B surrounded by a dust ring featuring the tell-tale fingerprint ...

A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system have focused exclusively on their position in ...

Earth” that sits in the temperate zone of its star, instantly vaulting it into the short list of worlds that might be able to ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Astronomer Gemma Lavender thought this telescope was great for beginners and astrophotographers, and now it's $500 this Black ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been awarded a prestigious Science Diplomacy Award at the closing ceremony of the 2025 Science Forum South Africa (SFSA), held from 24–28 November at ...

This makes it appear correspondingly smaller through a telescope—infinitesimally smaller, in fact, appearing as only a point ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

NASA is heading into the holidays with long-awaited good news about its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman ...

Vanessa Chaves, Ken Gowin, Richard Law, Ella Schulz, Barbie Lunt, John Ratje, Paul Schulz, Bob Hiatt, Paul Taylor. (Middle ...