New ALMA observations reveal that the discs where planets form are often slightly warped, challenging long-held assumptions and offering clues about the subtle misalignments seen in our own Solar ...

Archaeologists have recently made a groundbreaking discovery: a stone carving that appears to be an ancient map of the stars.

"Our approach gives astronomers an idea of how many spots a star might have, where they are located, and how bright or dark ...

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

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

The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist.

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

Now a game-changing instrument called NIRPS (Near-Infrared Planet Searcher) is leading the search for the most tantalizing ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of a ...

Astronomers at Leiden University have detected rare isotopes of carbon and oxygen in our neighboring stars for the first time ...

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

Fresh results from near-infrared instruments foretell a bright future for finding life elsewhere in the Milky Way ...