Edwin Hubble's revelation in 1924 that the Andromeda Nebula was, in fact, an 'island universe,' was a pivotal moment in our ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our ...

Elon Musk, the newly appointed “first bro” of the US, has identified three criteria for the Department of Government ...

In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, astronomers describe the youngest transiting planet ever found. It’s ...

Using one of the most powerful telescopes on Earth, astronomers have witnessed an intimidating 2-million-mile-per-hour ...

A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one traveling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been ...

Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

Four new images show our nearest star in dazzling detail, with each one made up of 25 shots observed by the Solar Orbiter in ...

Researchers have discovered three ultra-massive galaxies from the universe's first billion years, challenging existing models of star formation. These galaxies, identified with the James Webb Space ...

How do you weigh one of the largest objects in the entire universe? Very carefully, according to new research.

For a long time, astronomers believed galaxy formation followed a very specific model: cosmic gas collects in clumps, stars ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...