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

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

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

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

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf ...

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

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

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

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.