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

West Texas Astronomers host a public skywatching event on Friday during the near peak of the Eta Aquarid meteor showers. Here ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

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The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

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 ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from ...

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...