The satellite population in low Earth orbit (LEO) is not an open book. While data on many satellites is public, others are ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

Astronomers have employed NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) to conduct a ...

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"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told ...

Last month, astronomers claimed to have found the strongest evidence ever of alien life on a distant exoplanet named K2-18 b.

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

The galaxy MoM-z14 dates back to 280 million years after the big bang, and the prevalence of such early galaxies is puzzling ...

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to some extremely weird things, but a new discovery has astronomers truly baffled.

Using various ground-based and space telescopes, an international team of astronomers has observed a highly variable young ...

A spherical object lurking in our galaxy is so perfectly circular that astronomers can't explain how it was formed. Dubbed ...

Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...