Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

Now, Gaia has uncovered a star family unlike any seen before—a massive group of over 1,000 young stars behaving in an ...

Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

Astronomers have discovered Eos, a massive molecular cloud, surprisingly close to Earth at just 300 light-years away. This ...

Though astronomers have known about the threat posed by near-Earth objects since the 1970s, efforts to catalogue potentially ...

A meteor shower known for the speed of its shooting stars is expected to peak on Monday night, according to astronomers.

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have taken a major step toward understanding a puzzling type of planet ...

Hockey fans are amped up as three Canadian teams advance to the second round of the NHL playoffs. Analysts say the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Winnipeg Jets and the Edmonton Oilers are all serious ...

A cosmic "bone" at the heart of the Milky Way appears to be fractured. Looking at the break, astronomers found a radio source.

Astronomers are once again getting excited about a rare nova that could appear in the night sky anytime from now into the ...

Last year in August, the number of moons orbiting Earth temporarily doubled, admittedly from the low starting point of "one", ...