Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

The research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...

When we visited Yerkes Observatory in 2021, it was closed and faced a daunting road back, yet its director had big plans. It reopened in 2022 and we went back to see what's happened at this historic ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are monitoring an asteroid that has a very slim chance of hitting ...

Tylos is a gas giant 900 light-years away - and astronomers have now mapped its astonishing atmosphere in 3D for the first ...

Astronomers have unlocked a new way to explore alien worlds by mapping the 3D structure of an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the ...

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

A team of scientists from the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad has discovered a giant planet bigger than Earth but ...