Finding habitable worlds is a top priority for astronomers. Many factors define what makes a planet habitable, yet one of those factors...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has done us humanoids proud. Recently astronomers used it to spot a nest of large baby galaxies...
Using powerful radio telescopes known as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have found a concentrated cluster of enormous young galaxies...
This year, the Leonid meteor shower will be visible from the night of Tuesday the 17th of November through the morning of...
Astronomers have suspected that there was once a fifth giant planet in addition to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Something caused that...
Data coming back from New Horizons is revealing amazing new information about Pluto and its moons. Much of this information contradicts previously...
Mathematicians from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom have developed a new method of measuring star mass which can be...
Columbia astronomers confirmed that two black holes that are on a collision course with one another are a lot closer than they...
Once every two decades or so, a supermoon — a full moon at its closest point to Earth — coincides with a...
A new image of the Prawn Nebula reveals “cosmic recycling.” Clusters of glowing “newborn stars” illuminate gas expelled from a dead stellar...
The moon is cozying up to it’s Blue Planet pal and the results couldn’t be more spectacular. Last night millions of people...
A group of scientists, led by astronomers from Dublin’s Cardiff University’s School of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered why galaxies are shaped...
Astronomers have discovered a giant black hole nearly as large as 7 billion suns, which is much larger than expected in relation...
When now 17-year-old Tom Wagg was just 15-years-old, he discovered a planet while doing work-experience at Keele University. The planet which he...
Astronomers observing the unique star nicknamed “Nasty 1” with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made a startling observation: Nasty 1 has engaged...
An “extremely rare” cluster of four quasars in a single nebula has been spotted by astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii...
A team of high school students have discovered a previously unseen pulsar—a rapidly spinning neutron star—which happens to have the widest orbit...
A mysterious fireball seen shooting shooting across the night sky, lighting up the Irish countryside as if it was daylight, has been...
A recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters claims that a distant flashing light in the depths of space could be an...
The Earth-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a high-resolution image of an Einstein ring effect in what CNET indicated in...