Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" body residing on the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research. The object – which goes by the formal designation 2023 KQ14 but is nicknamed ...

Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was discovered using wide-field imaging. The Subaru Telescope has spotted a distant ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

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Astronomers have made an incredible discovery of a large molecular cloud located just over 300 light-years from Earth that is invisible to the naked eye but detectable in the far-ultraviolet range of ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered trans-Neptunian object 2017 OF201. The TNO is potentially large enough to ...