The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

Butterfly Nebula discovery could show how the sun might die - Scientists say the findings at the core of the Butterfly Nebula ...

Stars have layers like onions, according to theory. The layers are made of different elements, progressing from light to ...

A possible asteroid impact on Saturn—the first ever captured on video—has set off a wave of investigation across the ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a ...

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of August 26 and observe the ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...