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 ...

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope by NASA gives a glimpse into a black hole within the Circinus Galaxy, which ...