The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

KiDS J0842+0059 lies around 3 billion light-years away from Earth. It holds a stellar mass almost 100 billion times that of ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

An exoplanet has been discovered orbiting Barnard's star by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Barnard ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature ’s photo team.

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...