WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

Thanks to a theory put forward by Albert Einstein over 100 years ago and a happy coincidence, astronomers have discovered ...

Scientists studying the famous 'Wow! signal' think they've finally pinpointed a possible origin for the baffling radio ...

Recently, astronomers have detected an unusual spacecraft-sized object near Jupiter, sparking curiosity and debate within the ...

The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...

What happens after you stop taking GLP-1 drugs? While FDA-approved medications are helping people lose weight, they don’t ...

Coronal loops are arc-shaped structures of plasma that follow the Sun's magnetic field lines. They often appear before solar flares, which occur when some of these magnetic lines twist and break, ...

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

The smallest magnetic loops ever seen in the sun's corona — imaged for the first time by the National Science Foundation's ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey continues its twenty-year legacy of wide-field optical/infrared imaging and spectroscopy, which has led astronomy into the era of large archives and data science. Harvard ...