A team of Johns Hopkins researchers has developed a cutting-edge data science approach capable of matching observations of celestial objects taken across multiple telescope surveys, overcoming a ...

MOST is unlike any spectroscope ever built. It can unravel the light of 2,400 celestial objects simultaneously into 18,000 ...

When planetary rings are mentioned, the image of Saturn immediately comes to mind. However, this celestial feature is not ...

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object - perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...

XMM-Newton has caught the fading glow of a tiny celestial object, revealing its rotation rate for the first time. The new information confirms this particular object as one of an extremely rare class ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious cosmic 'heartbeat' repeating every 22 minutes, unlike any known celestial object.

The moon-planet-star trio are among the brightest objects in our solar system, meaning the impending conjunction should be incredibly easy to spot. A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...