It comprises three very bright stars that are in three different constellations. The stars are Vega, in the constellation Lyra, Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, and Altair in the constellation ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.

With 3.2 billion pixels and a decade-long search, the Rubin Observatory will reveal what’s been hiding in plain sight.

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made new discoveries about the origin and atmosphere of a distant ...

Gavin Wang at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and his colleagues used the WIYN telescope in Arizona to ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

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Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Ancient Greek astronomers likely observed Uranus as a star, but limited tools and geocentric views kept them from recognizing ...

The telescopes at Lick may be vintage, but scientists at the observatory continue to discover new planets and examine ...

"Studying the chemistry of ultra hot planets like WASP-121b helps us to understand how gas giant atmospheres work under ...

A computer simulation predicts that the Rubin Observatory will discover millions of previously undetected objects in the ...