Merak Village, Ladakh: The Sun is the harbinger of life on Earth, but we understand so little of our nearest star. The Sun occasionally gets very angry; it then unleashes massive solar storms that ...

Reports carried by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration say 2024 PT5 — a near-earth asteroid about 30 meters ...

Astronomers have photographed a distant star in what appears to be its death throes, the first time such a phenomenon has been pictured happening outside the Milky Way galaxy. The star, Sol, which ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the ...

An international team of astronomers has reported the detection of a new super-Jupiter exoplanet as part of the Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS). The newfound alien world, located some 1,430 ...

While astronomers have taken about two dozen zoomed-in images of stars in our galaxy, unveiling their properties, countless other stars dwell within other galaxies, so far away that observing even ...

Astronomers hope the event will reveal vital secrets about the often-violent evolution of our universe. Astronomers have spotted one of the most powerful shock waves ever seen, caused by a galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers have observed a giant spiral galaxy designated ADF22.A1.

Over 100 astronomers from leading U.S. universities have signed an open letter calling for an assessment of potential impacts of satellite megaconstellations on Earth's environment. The ...

The astronomer David Koerner thinks it also affects our sense of place — in the universe. “Seeing the galaxy in which you live, and understanding that it’s there, and understanding that your ...