The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

Images taken with the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it possible to observe the ...

India just ranked No. 1 in the world at the Astronomy Olympiad in Mumbai. Baby hospitalized after pepper spray incident at ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

China is going full throttle in its quest to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. That was clearly evident in an Aug. 15 ...

Throughout the Earth’s precessional cycle, different stars serve as a pole star, including Thuban, Kochab, Polaris, and Vega.

Astronomers have imaged a huge expanding bubble of gas and dust surrounding a red supergiant star — the largest such bubble ...

The brightest fast radio burst ever detected could help reveal what celestial source causes the mysterious signals and if ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical ...

The Ancient City Astronomy Club is hosting an event called Night Under the Stars from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday at the St.

During the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, sidewalk astronomers brought a sense of hope into Washington, D.C.