"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

Italian astronomers report the detection of a new X-ray binary (XRB), which has received the designation 4XMM J181330.1-17511 ...

The team tracked the signal back to a strange binary system containing a dead star or " white dwarf " and a red dwarf stellar ...

Astronomers have developed the first three-dimensional (3D) map detailing the properties of interstellar dust in the Milky ...

The four exoplanets orbit Barnard’s Star so closely that their years last only a few Earth days. They are probably rocky and, ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...

Astronomers have figured out where a stream of long radio bursts is coming from, and its origin is unprecedented. Rather than ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

BEIJING -- Chinese and foreign astronomers have unveiled the first three-dimensional map of the properties of interstellar ...