An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

For centuries, lenses have worked the same way: curved glass or plastic bending light to bring images into focus. But ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

The scene was captured on Jan. 19 beside one of the auxiliary telescopes that contribute to ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, a system of four telescopes working in unison. Comet C/2024 ...

Located 900 light-years away in the constellation Puppis, WASP-121b is an ultra-hot Jupiter, a gas giant orbiting its star so ...

The more powerful they get, traditional curved lenses used in telescopes become bigger and bulkier. University of Utah ...

Researchers have peered into the atmosphere of planet WASP-121b and found its climate is stranger than anyone imagined.

CHILLING new telescope photos of the “city killer” asteroid hurtling towards earth at 30,000mph have been released. The chance of the space rock smashing into Earth when it loops ...

Scientists aim to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the universe using NASA's newest space telescope, ...