(CNN)A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of ... and the comets also created from those same clouds swirling around newborn stars. "V883 Orionis is the missing link ...

But the object also had a weird orbit: It accelerated away from the sun in a way that astronomers could not explain, leading some to suggest it was an alien spaceship. Now, in a study published ...

with eight co-authors who are current or former members of the Department of Astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences. Earlier images of the same Einstein ring captured by the Atacama Large ...

There are thousands of them that we know of, and probably hundreds of thousands bigger than 62 miles (100 km) across, waiting to be discovered and measured by astronomers. Each one of them is a ...

Astronomers are becoming increasingly concerned about light pollution in the night sky caused by the growing number of satellites, and also space junk, in low-Earth orbit. Sunlight reflecting off ...

Scientists have discovered a Jupiter-like “forbidden planet” around 285 light-years from our solar system. The newly discovered gas giant was revealed by astronomers utilizing NASA’s ...

If not stopped, this craziness will become worse and worse.' Less than a month after astronomers found satellite trails scarring many images snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, a new paper is ...

Recently, a team of astronomers led by Nikita Rawat of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES) in India has investigated two CVs, namely: 1RXS J174320.1-042953 (or ...

The team estimated the companion galaxy, which they labeled SPT0418-SE, was within 5 kiloparsecs of SPT0418-47, one of the brightest dusty, star-forming galaxies in the early universe, its distant ...