Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The annual event celebrates the discovery of the little planet with a big heart and other scientific advances at Flagstaff, ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

NASA revealed the first photographs of the universe taken by the James Webb telescope. These are the shocking images.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

The night sky is an object of fascination for many, and the Princeton community is no exception. On select nights throughout ...

A team of astronomers looking at data from the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope in Western Australia were met with a ...

Astronomers have mapped, for the first time, the three-dimensional structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere, revealing ...

Leo P is a rare, untouched galaxy that has remained unchanged for billions of years. Unlike many galaxies that merged and ...

Astronomers on Tuesday announced their observations of distinct winds in separate layers circulating on the planet named WASP ...