Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which ...

When was Pluto discovered? Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Cold, dark and distant, it was n ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

NASA has updated the odds of a devastating asteroid striking Earth, saying it is now greater than the odds of winning a game ...

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. Here's how Pluto won - and lost - its planetary status.

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

Gaia-4b, a giant exoplanet orbiting a small star, is the first planet confirmed using Gaia’s astrometric technique.