The exoplanet HR8799e isn’t a new discovery. It was first discovered in 2010 orbiting a young main-sequence star (a star fusing hydrogen atoms ...

The aptly named telescope captured the first confirmed image of a planet coming together. A young dwarf star, named PDS 70, is home ...

It’s big enough you could toss Earth in there and still have a little room. Located in the thin high-altitude thermosphere, the spot ...

4.37 light-years away lies the Alpha Centauri system. What lurks near our closest stellar neighbor? A big announcement last August revealed a planet ...

Meet AR Scorpii, a star system located about 380 light-years from Earth. It’s a binary star system made up of a white dwarf ...

A binary black hole, or a single giant star. Those are the two options that await a pair of stars in the double ...

The Pillars of Creation is one of the most famous photographs ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The feature is located in ...

We’ve known water was on Mars in the past, but how much exactly was there? Fresh NASA research suggests Mars had more water ...

Peering deep into the cosmos with the Very Large Telescope’s X-shooter instrument, astronomers have observed one of the youngest and most remote galaxies ...

700 million years from now, two white dwarf stars will merge and create a massive supernova explosion.

Nearly 1,300 light years away from Earth lies CG4, better known as the ‘Mouth of the Beast’ and sometimes ‘God’s Hand.’ CG4 is ...

There’s a new headache for astronomers wanting to image Earth-like planets. Exozodiacal light. This phenomenon is similar to the one seen on earth ...