Scientists have unveiled an enormous gas cloud just 300 light-years from the solar system that measures about full 40 moons ...

Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

Most have been found via microlensing: their gravity acts as a lens that boosts the light of a background star in a ...

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the ...

Venus dominates as the brilliant “Morning Star” in the east-southeast before dawn; the Eta Aquariid meteor shower takes place ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope and an array of other instruments, astronomers have probed supernova wreckage in the Large ...