The SOAR Telescope, located on Cerro Pachón in Chile, has received a major upgrade with the installation of the SOAR Telescope Echelle Spectrograph (STELES). The long-awaited instrument achieved first ...

Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based ...

A feathery ring of dust and stars known as galaxy NGC2775 continues to irk astronomers and has yet to be defined after NASA released updated imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

What new methods can be employed to help astronomers distinguish the light from an exoplanet and its host star so the ...

Learn about SIMP-0136, a rogue planet emitting wavelengths that reveal patchy clouds and auroras similar to the Northern ...

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

NASA’s exoplanet tally has climbed to 6,000, revealing bizarre and beautiful worlds far stranger than our own.

"We show that this design can, in principle, find half of all existing Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars within 30 light-years in less than three years." ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggests interstellar object 3I/ATLAS could be far more massive than previously thought.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system.