If the object really is Planet Nine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.

A new study, however, identifies a possible candidate. A separate team of astronomers compared 1983 data from the Infrared ...

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

For over a century, black holes have fascinated scientists with their mysterious nature. According to Einstein’s theory of ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

When I first started working with integral field spectroscopic (IFU) data, I was struck by how much complexity was being ...

For years, astronomers have toyed with the idea that the Sun hides an extra planet so distant and dim that even the best ...

W hen astronomers first spotted Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1, it caused a little excitement. The group of stars at the edge of the ...

ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit. Music: John Dyson Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch Martha ...

Astronomers gain a greater understanding of black hole singularity. Experimental evidence for a finite core could illuminate ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...