An organic molecule called methanimine was found scattered throughout a dense clump of gas and dust 554 light-years away.

A distant star dimmed by 97% for nearly 200 days. Astronomers say giant rings around a brown dwarf or super-Jupiter may explain it.

The New Crescent Society, which is organizing the Greenwich event with the Royal Observatory, is hoping moon sighting will ...

Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.

A recently published study in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has uncovered an intriguing explanation for ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

For decades, astronomers have been watching WOH G64, an enormous heavyweight star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy ...

Astronomers had warned that proximity of INNA facility to telescopes would have irreparably damaged observation ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...

Things are much bigger outside the solar system.

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...