An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

A trio of astronomers with the University of Tokyo and Niigata University has discovered a possible new class of interstellar ...

Scientists observing the Centaurus galaxy cluster made an exciting breakthrough by discovering powerful streams of hot gas ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

Saturn has cemented its status as the planet with the most moons, leaving Jupiter trailing behind. Astronomers have confirmed ...