A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections, a complete infrared survey of the entire sky. For more than a decade ...

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

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Top Astronomers Just Revealed the Most Convincing Proof of Alien Life Until Today ...

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

Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

A new radio survey reveals that the Milky Way’s magnetic field is intricate, widespread, and deeply connected to how the galaxy is organized.

York was the first researcher to find an isotope of hydrogen known as deuterium, which helped give researchers an understanding of dark matter.