An ambitious project to map the density of every object in the cosmos has yielded a few surprises, and may help lead to new ...

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph ...

Worlds this small and distant are thought to be too cold and have too little surface gravity to hold onto gases. But the findings suggest that icy, rocky objects in the solar system's outer reaches ar ...

Pluto was believed to be the only body beyond Neptune with an atmosphere. Now, a new discovery in our solar system is ...

Astronomers have identified another object from this realm, with a diameter of roughly 310 miles (500 km), that has an ...

The finding comes with significant new suggestions about the solar system ...

The cloud-9 astronomical object with radio data shown in diffused magenta - NASA, ESA, VLA, Gagandeep Anand (STScI), Alejandro Benitez-Llambay (University of Milano-Bicocca); Image Processing: Joseph ...

All living creatures are affected by the cycles of celestial objects. Humans have always been locked into the rhythms of sunrise and sunset, the phases of the Moon, and the seasons. We left some of ...

Using a worldwide network of radio telescopes including the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in the distant universe. A million times the mass of ...

Cloud-9 was first discovered about three years ago by a telescope located in Guizhou, China. However, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) wasn't able to exactly identify it for ...