Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

Deep observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an exceptionally large galaxy in the early ...

The effects of a proposed green-energy facility in Chile could be devastating for some of the most powerful instruments ...

Four small, newly discovered worlds are less than six light-years away from Earth, and their discovery reinforces a ...