About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

In our solar system, Earth is one of but eight planets – nine, if you really want to count Pluto – and the only one remotely hospitable to life. And as technology advances, astronomers only expect to ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known quasar known as the Cloverleaf. As part of the observations, they ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

Astronomers have found the most distant and energetic “odd radio circle” ever detected — a massive double-ringed radio structure nearly 10 billion years old. The discovery, made with the help of ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered a space explosion of unprecedented magnitude, challenging existing scientific understanding. This record-breaking event, detailed in the article “Astronomers Just ...

Recent research indicates that larger objects in the Taurid stream could pose a greater threat in 2032 and 2036, potentially ...

You may have seen claims about three comets discovered this year: C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), C/2025 R2 (SWAN), and C/2025 A6 (Lemmon), being visible in the fall skies. Yeah ... about that. Other WRAL Top ...