Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and were dramatically ejected into space when their companion stars underwent ...

A plan to build a light-polluting green hydrogen plant near one of the world's most important astronomical observatories has ...

For more than three decades, the Hubble Space Telescope has collected targeted images to answer specific scientific questions ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

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

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

A groundbreaking new radio image reveals the Milky Way in more detail than ever before, using low-frequency radio “colors” to ...

Scientists using Juno report Jupiter is smaller than previously thought, enhancing understanding of its shape, interior density, gravitational field, and comparison to other gas giant planets ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

Astronomers in the United Arab Emirates have issued important guidance indicating when exactly Ramadan is likely to begin.