New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.

The Very Large Telescope has captured a new planet forming around star RIK 113, offering unprecedented detail into the ...

On remote mountain tops across the world, a new breed of optical and infrared telescopes stands sentry, watching the heavens. They are the colossi of modern astronomy. Twice the size of their ...

An international team of astronomers, led by University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter ...

Surveying nearby galaxies in the process of merging with other galaxies, astronomers have identified massive, dense star ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...