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

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

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

An international of team astronomers has unveiled the first three-dimensional (3D) map of the properties of interstellar dust ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

You can make the case that none of them are in true color. But then again, if they were, they’d be unable to reveal the true ...

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

Barnard’s Star has fascinated astronomers for decades. At just six light-years away, it is the second-closest single star to our own Sun. Now, two separate research teams have found solid evidence ...

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

The discovery of the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXXV --located roughly 3 million light-years away and the smallest yet found in the Andromeda system -- is forcing astronomers to rethink how galaxies ...

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

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...