Astronomers watched a distant star dim for months and found a metal-rich cloud that may be the aftermath of a massive ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the violent collision of Jupiter and Uranus, revealing the catastrophic cosmic ...

A distant Sun-like star suddenly went dark for months, stunning astronomers who quickly realized something massive was ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...

Astronomers detect a massive metal-rich cloud orbiting an unseen companion of star J0705+0612. Observations reveal its size, composition, and possible origin from a planetary collision.

For example, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on thousands of radar echoes can recognize the unique spatial signature of a small metallic fragment, even when its signal is partially masked ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

Astronomers have identified powerful winds of vaporized metals inside a vast cloud that blocked the light of a distant star ...

For those who watch gravitational waves roll in from the universe, GW250114 is a big one. It's the clearest gravitational ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once a potential threat to Earth, could hit the Moon in 2032, creating a 1 km crater, a bright flash visible from Earth, and a possible meteor shower, scientists say.