An international team of researchers has discovered a massive molecular cloud that, if we could see it in our sky, would ...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

Using the Subaru Telescope at Maunakea, Hawaii, the team discovered a “Dark Matter bridge” connecting Perseus to a subcluster ...

A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

All but one of Andromeda's satellite galaxies were found to be pointing right at us. According to our best models, that shouldn't be the case at all.

It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

We were doing the typical planet vetting, and I happened to spot this signal that appeared very unusual.” An orbiting ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that is literally falling apart as it orbits its star. Located about 140 light-years from ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are working to confirm potential evidence of life on a distant exoplanet ...