Dr. Gregory Feiden, a University of North Georgia (UNG) professor of astronomy, and his research group have spent the past ...

Astronomers discovered a rare ultra-massive white dwarf forged in a stellar smash-up and unmasked only by Hubble’s ...

New research has unveiled the potential for an atmosphere around an Earth -sized planet located approximately 40 light-years ...

Yet much of the dust endures, likely cocooned by protective cooler gas pockets, according to the statement. Observing these ...

It's much harder to find, but there are a lot more of them." The first interstellar object to visit the solar system may have ...

Researchers have spotted a Jupiter-like gas giant forming in the disk around a young sun — earlier in the star's lifetime ...

Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...

Researchers describe the newly discovered binary system as a cosmic oddball. Stars often reach the end of their lives and ...

The race for space internet is colliding with humanity’s oldest science.

A group of young astronomers has captured something few people ever get to see: a planet in the middle of its own creation.

John Flamsteed, a Derbyshire astronomer, was the inaugural Astronomer Royal and also made the first recorded observations of ...

An interest in astronomy may strike early in life or later. Regardless of what lit the fire of that interest, you need ...