Astronomers have discovered TIDYE-1b, the youngest known transiting planet, estimated to be a mere three million years old.

In 1936 astronomers watched as FU Orionis, a dim star in the Orion constellation, brightened dramatically. The star’s ...

Since the first modern SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence) studies tried to detect alien transmissions in the ...

The cosmos continually surprises astronomers with phenomena that defy expectations. One such discovery, dubbed the “Einstein ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on ...

Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the FU Orionis' mechanisms. In 1936, the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) ...

The largest magnetic fields in the universe may have found themselves charged up when the first stars began to shine, ...

Today: We are just a few days away from the earliest sunsets of the year in Ellensburg, meaning it is getting dark as early ...

On November 24, 1639 (according to the calendar in use then), the transit of Venus was recorded for the first time by English ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...

A series of "red monsters" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are complicating our accepted ideas about the ...