Skywatchers will be able to witness a rare six-planet alignment shortly after sunset on Feb. 28, provided skies remain clear.

Park City area residents have a packed lineup of celestial events to look forward to this month, from a rare blood moon to a ...

Astronomers have analyzed the images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to investigate a galactic open cluster ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.

The four-star system features three stars in stable orbits, plus a fourth at a distance equal to Jupiter's orbit around our Sun.

"TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system." ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

A fourth Sun-like star loops around this tightly packed inner nexus roughly once every 1,000 days. The whole collection would ...

When most people think of a supernova, they're thinking of a Type II core-collapse supernova. These are massive stars that have reached the end of their time on the main sequence. They've used up ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the aftermath of what some call "galactic cannibalism:" the aftermath of a 100 million-year-old cosmic collision ...