President Trump has ordered the release of all government documents related to aliens, UFOs and extraterrestrial life. It ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

Spanish astronomers have conducted a near-infrared study of an ultra-high energy gamma-ray source designated LHAASO ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Astronomers had decent guesses about how these peanut-shaped asteroids formed but couldn’t get the physics to work—until now.

An international team of scientists led by the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the ...

But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...