Astronomers discovered that dwarf planet Quaoar, which resides in the outer solar system, sports a strange ring around it. And according to researchers, this lumpy ring of material is so far from ...

But the object also had a weird orbit: It accelerated away from the sun in a way that astronomers could not explain, leading some to suggest it was an alien spaceship. Now, in a study published ...

(CNN)A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of ... and the comets also created from those same clouds swirling around newborn stars. "V883 Orionis is the missing link ...

Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about light pollution in the night sky caused by the growing number of satellites, and also space junk, in low-Earth orbit. Sunlight reflecting off ...

Scanning the first images of a well-known early galaxy taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Cornell astronomers were ... called an Einstein ring. But a deeper dive into the early ...

If not stopped, this craziness will become worse and worse.' Less than a month after astronomers found satellite trails scarring many images snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, a new paper is ...

A white dwarf star can explode as a supernova when its mass exceeds the limit of about 1.4 solar masses. A team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) in Garching and ...

The team estimated the companion galaxy, which they labeled SPT0418-SE, was within 5 kiloparsecs of SPT0418-47, one of the brightest dusty, star-forming galaxies in the early universe, its distant ...

(CNN) — A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery ... how a cloud of gas collapses to form a star with a disk around it. Then, the material creates a disk around the ...