"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

Italian astronomers report the detection of a new X-ray binary (XRB), which has received the designation 4XMM J181330.1-17511 ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust ...

A trio of astronomers with the University of Tokyo and Niigata University has discovered a possible new class of interstellar ...

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...