Scanning the constellation Cepheus the King leads us to one of the sky's largest emission nebulae - IC 1396. It measures a whopping 2.8° by 2.3°. But this region also contains dark nebulae and a ...

Scientists use James Webb Space Telescope to make 1st 3D map of exoplanet — and it's so hot, it rips apart water ...

The Milky Way is a complex, ever-evolving galaxy, teeming with hidden wonders. For years, astronomers have looked to radio ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, mapped a mysterious form of matter in our galaxy that had remained invisible until now.

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help astronomers identify celestial objects in the night sky? This is what a recent ...

Tel Aviv scientists predict ancient radio signals from the early Universe that could reveal how dark matter shaped stars and ...

An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of three Earth-sized planets orbiting within the binary star system TOI-2267, located approximately 190 light-years from Earth. An inter ...

When the National Science Foundation announced a competition to fund institutes in astronomy and AI in the summer of 2023, ...

A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star’s disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device ...