Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

NASA said that while the mystery of the Circinus galaxy’s excess emissions has been solved, there are billions of black holes ...

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our own Sun.

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

Blooming seas were recorded around the Chatham Islands in January 2026, after satellite images showed large swirls of colour ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...

The first solar eclipse of 2026 will be a rare annular eclipse forming a stunning ‘Ring of Fire’. While it will be visible in ...

Scientists warn a strange iron bar in a distant nebula could reveal Earth's fate when the Sun dies, offering a grim look at ...