Last week AES Andes—a subsidiary of the AES Corporation, an American energy company—announced it had scrapped its plans for a ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Astronomers combing through years of images collected by the NEOWISE mission have found the clearest known evidence of a star converting directly to a black hole, without passing through the supernova ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

How space telescopes capture distant galaxies using infrared imaging, precision optics, and astronomy technology beyond Earth's atmosphere.

Celestron, Earth's number one telescope brand, today announced the launch of the Lumina Program, a buy-one, give-one ...

Astronomers watching the Andromeda Galaxy have now seen something they had only theorized before: a massive star that simply vanished, apparently collapsing straight into a black hole instead of ...

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

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...