Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

Astronomers have used a novel technique to find evidence of a secret "buddy" star orbiting Betelgeuse, one of the brightest ...

A team of astronomers have made a fascinating discovery that forces us to rethink our understanding of how dead stars behave.

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...

The fact that Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the sky over Earth, visible with the naked eye, has made it one of ...

A team of astronomers led by Macquarie University has monitored the orbital decay of an extreme exoplanet to gain new ...

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

The findings confirm a long-standing theory first proposed in the early 1900s. More importantly, it sheds new light on how ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...