One of the great ironies of the year is the fact that in the heat of the summer in the northern hemisphere, the Earth is much ...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

A comet born around another star crossed into our solar system, accelerated to roughly 153,000 miles per hour at its closest ...

This is what is going to happen to the Sun in about 5 billion years, so obviously any exoplanets in white dwarf orbit are of ...

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...

The Dwarf Mini makes it as easy and intuitive as possible to start photographing the deep sky. It packs quite a punch ...

July offers stargazers exciting celestial events, from a meteor shower to the Summer Triangle and a viewing of the Andromeda ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured ionizing ultraviolet light from galaxy MXDFz4.4, which existed just 1.4 billion years after ...

Two newly confirmed "super-puff" planets are so diffuse that they are less dense than cotton candy, despite being about the size of Jupiter. Their rare orbital relationship and enormous, lightweight ...

Nearly every massive galaxy observed hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered that some of these supermassive black holes may even be too big for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Earth is illuminated against the blackness of space in this ...