Using the 104-cm Sampurnanand optical telescope, Indian astronomers have performed photometric observations of an open ...

Now, Gaia has uncovered a star family unlike any seen before—a massive group of over 1,000 young stars behaving in an ...

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, ...

Using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) onboard the International Space Station (ISS), astronomers have ...

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The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

Researchers have found a candidate for the hypothetical Planet Nine, which could be an undiscovered giant planet way out in ...

Scientists have found evidence for a cosmic collision in the Perseus cluster, a group of thousands of galaxies not far from ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Eos, a newly discovered hydrogen cloud just 300 light-years from Earth, offers a rare look at hidden star-forming regions.