A team of international astronomers has captured what may be the clearest evidence yet of a planet forming in real time. The discovery centers around a young protoplanet called AB Aurigae b, still ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Astronomers from the University of Southampton made the unexpected discovery while examining an infant galaxy 12 billion ...

Researchers have detected a gamma-ray burst outside of the Milky Way that's unlike any previously observed. There's no ...

Astronomers are trying to determine what caused a series of gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the universe, ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

A Chilean astronomer has become dedicated to battling light pollution in the Atacama Desert and preserve what is considered the best place on Earth to study space.

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...