Astronomers have long speculated about an unseen planet lurking in the solar system's outer edge. This hypothetical world, dubbed Planet Nine, could explain the unusual clustering ...

If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

If you’re anything like us, then you’re already thinking about when the next public holiday in Dubai is. And astronomers have shared the latest hint indicating how long we could get off for Eid Al ...

AST SpaceMobile signs agreement with NSF to reduce satellite impact on astronomy and adopt best practices. The company aims to boost global mobile connectivity while protecting ground-based ...

She explains how astronomers measure star distances using parallax, rate stellar brightness, study stars through light waves, classify galaxies by shape, and detect black holes through ...

About 2,600 light-years away, a dead star is sending signals from beyond the grave. Astronomers recently found the strange beacon, which appears to be a pulsar blinking in slow motion ...

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Astronomers can use these fluctuations, or bumps, in brightness to help locate alien worlds unlike our own. In this case, microlensing signals were used to locate OGLE-2016-BLG-0007, a super-Earth ...

Dark matter, the invisible substance astronomers believe dominates the universe, provides the gravitational scaffolding for galaxies to assemble and grow. Discovering a galaxy without dark matter ...

Just as Luke Skywalker watched two suns set from his sandy home planet Tatooine, a newly discovered planet called 2M1510 is circling its own twin stars some 120 light years away from our Solar ...

He was just a few years old, but those visuals stuck with him. “That was the sort of thing that got me hooked on astronomy,” he says. Hubble can inspire a sense of curiosity and wonder about ...