Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet that's got everyone talking, 2025 has been jam-packed with astronomical ...

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A billionaire-backed philanthropic organization is funding the development of a series of new observatories, including a ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9." ...

With new technologies comes new discoveries. Or so Spider Man's Uncle Ben might have said if he was an astronomer. Or a scientist more generally—but in astronomy that saying is more true than many ...

At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one ...

CHANTILLY, Va. - Efforts to move the space shuttle "Discovery" from Northern Virginia to Texas have hit a roadblock. So, it looks like the shuttle will stay in the DMV — at least for now. This means ...