University of Birmingham astronomers joined a global team of scientists to discover a distant planetary system that turns scientific understanding of planet formation upside down. In the Solar System, ...

A small red dwarf star in the Milky Way has drawn attention after astronomers mapped four closely orbiting planets around it. The system, known as LHS 1903, does not follow the layout many scientists ...

Thorington Street, in Dedham Vale, gets “some really lovely dark skies” and the “Milky Way can be seen very clearly in the ...

A new lawsuit accuses a south St. Louis smoke shop of selling unregulated THC-infused candies and snacks that mimic popular ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the ...

Deep inside a nearby galaxy cloaked in thick clouds of gas and dust, astronomers have uncovered a surprising treasure trove ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...