The Euclid space mission of the European Space Agency has spotted an Einstein ring in the galaxy NGC 6505, just 590 million ...

The "needle in the haystack" discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has ...

A Neptune-sized exoplanet has been detected moving at a record-breaking 1.2M mph, led by a hypervelocity star.

A stunning new discovery reveals that white dwarf stars — once thought to explode in predictable ways — actually detonate through an astonishing variety of mechanisms. From star cannibalism to violent ...

As civilizations advance, they may need to migrate across the galaxy, and some researchers speculate they could use their own stars as massive engines. New research explores the possibility of a ...

Learn about the explosions that often occur at the end of a white dwarf star's life, allowing scientists to study the ...

The dwarf planet 1 Ceres is in conjunction with the Sun at 5 P.M. EST today. While this means we can't see Ceres for now, we ...

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's super Neptune! But this Superman-mimicking planet is not blasting through space on its own. It is being dragged along by its parent star.

Astrophysicists have unearthed a surprising diversity in the ways in which white dwarf stars explode in deep space after ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...