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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Eos, a newly discovered hydrogen cloud just 300 light-years from Earth, offers a rare look at hidden star-forming regions.

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

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.