The world's newest astronomical observatory has begun producing an unprecedented stream of data on asteroids, supernovae and ...

The first half of 2026 brought five major space discoveries that challenged existing scientific theories, from record-breaking black holes and an ancient interstellar comet to surprising findings ...

A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch more than 1.7 million satellites ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet ...

Ganymede’s auroras have always stood apart for one simple reason: this is a moon, not a planet, and yet it carries its own ...

Astronomers from Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and elsewhere have conducted radio spectropolarimetric observations of a recently identified odd radio circle designated ORC J0356–4216. Results of ...

The night sky has changed before. Cities pushed artificial light across once-dark landscapes, aircraft stitched temporary ...

A mysterious neutrino signal has led astronomers to a surprising discovery: a hidden star-forming galaxy, not a supermassive black hole, may be generating some of the Universe’s most powerful ...