Gas giants possibly developed slowly in the solar system. They developed cores layer by layer within a disk of ice and dust ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...

Scientists discovered a distant jellyfish galaxy with star-forming "tails" stretching back 8.5 billion years.

They show up as a mathematical solution in general relativity, basically as a time-reversed version of a black hole. Some ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

All the “normal” matter, like the stars, gas, dust, and people, is called baryonic matter, and it’s basically the tiny visible fraction of a universe that’s mostly invisible and still not fully ...

LHS 1903 flips rock and gas on their heads, hinting that late-born planets can rewrite the rules around common red dwarfs for now.

This is akin to drawing a precise map of what we cannot see: a team of astronomers has just established the finest representation to date of dark matter, this enigmatic component of the cosmos ...

Our planet is home to nearly 10 million animal species. Yet, what about the life forms that are invisible to us? How many ...

Celestron FirstScope 76: Very affordable and ideal for kids or as a quick backyard scope. Despite the small size, you can easily catch the craters of the moon and even glimpse Jupiter’s moons.

M16 – the so-called Eagle Nebula with the 3 Pillars of Creation in its center – is one of the most iconic images we know from the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo: Michael S. From photographing ...