The Sculptor galaxy is a treasure trove of information that astronomers around the world cannot wait to pick apart.

While orbiting telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb Space Telescope give researchers a unique view of ...

Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and advertising can help people see in the dark of night, but many astronomers are ...

Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b can be seen moving around its star in this 17-year timelapse created using "AI-driven image-processing techniques," according to Northwestern University. Gemini Observatory ...

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these ...

Astronomers have discovered signs of complex organic molecules, considered precursors to sugars and amino acids, within a planet-forming disc. Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...