For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, called circumbinary planets, orbiting two stars. But for sheer ...

C.E, Chinese astronomers spotted a supernova and dubbed it the "guest star." The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in ...

A fog of long-wavelength infrared light could be produced by dusty, star-forming galaxies that have remained hidden — until now, that is.

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars – a real-life 'twist' on the fictional twin ...

Chile, Hawaii, Massachusetts and at the South Pole) and in orbit aloft (including the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, conceived at SAO and launched by NASA in July 1999). Researchers then set about ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet that orbits at a 90-degree angle around a rare pair of strange stars. The brown dwarfs ...

High up on the top of Cerro Pachón in northern Chile, NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing completion. At the heart ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first ...