The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first ...

An orb with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new finds with surprising parallels in fiction are rewriting our understanding of the universe.

An instrument is set to improve the detection and direct imaging of planets outside our solar system by harnessing the power ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

Orbs with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new discoveries, with surprising similarities to fiction, are ...

Astronomers on Thursday released time-lapse movies dramatizing the fiery behavior of two young star systems, observations that could shed light on the genesis of our solar system. The nearby stars, ...

SWAN is best viewed in the Southern Hemisphere. The comet crossed into the Libra constellation on September 28, and will make ...

JWST's detection of phosphine on a brown dwarf, also known as a "failed star," could have repercussions for the claimed detection of the molecule on Venus.

With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

Study finds evidence of a possible star explosion 10 million years ago by discovering unusually high levels of cosmic rays in ...