The newly found object, estimated to be roughly as massive as Jupiter, orbits a brown dwarf—a "failed star"—which in turn ...

Astronomers have discovered a remarkably tiny group of six young galaxies just 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. This may ...

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

A brown dwarf is wobbling on its path around a star in a manner that indicates it has its own giant satellite. This ...

Scientists are documenting a planetary system in the Milky Way galaxy that is so starkly dissimilar to our own solar system that they are struggling to find ​the proper terminology to describe it.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be the first space telescope to use an “active coronagraph” to block out unwanted starlight.

Two giant planets lighter than cotton candy are giving astronomers a rare new window into the origins of some of the galaxy's strangest worlds.

On August 12, 2026, lucky viewers in and around Greenland, Iceland and Spain—weather allowing—will be able to see one of nature’s truly glorious sights: a total solar eclipse.

A comet born around a distant star is now tearing through our solar system at roughly 150,000 miles per hour, and astronomers have only a few months to study it before it disappears forever.

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of our own solar system when the sun dies.