Beyond its cultural richness, Kolkata offers stargazers hidden gems for sky-watching from serene observatories to open ...

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own ...

Scientists say that the construction of a vast new radio telescope array in the Utah desert — known as the Deep Synoptic ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Astronomers have witnessed a planet causing eruptions on its parent star. The discovery, published in Nature, could reshape ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of ...

Some planets take the expression "you're your own worst enemy" to the extreme. At least, that's what astronomers found when ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.