For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal publishes the most precise study to date of the planetary system around the star LP 98-59. This ...

A new observatory with a powerful telescope has just opened in South Wairarapa.

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

The two telescopes operate synchronously: Izaña-2 fires laser pulses at a piece of space debris high overhead, and Izaña-1 ...

Astronomers have detected a cosmic explosion unlike anything ever seen before—an event that could point to a rare type of ...

Recently, Chinese scientists conducted an unprecedented search using the FAST radio telescope in the TRAPPIST-1 system, ...

When LIGO detected gravitational waves unleashed from two colliding black holes for the first time in science history, it set off a whole new era in astronomy.

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Using its 14-inch main telescope, the observatory tracked the comet immediately after sunset. In the resulting image, the ...

AP photographer Dmitri Lovetsky had been trying to photograph a plane flying across the disk of the sun for several days.

On July 1, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected what was first believed to be an asteroid. As ...