Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking black hole moving at over 1,000 km/s, believed to have been ejected after ...

An exoplanet located around 900 light-years away from us is known for its extreme conditions. It’s so hot that it […] ...

Galaxies don't float around at random. They line up along strands of cosmic filaments, sometimes stretching millions of light ...

The Moon’s size on the horizon has puzzled humans for millennia. Despite ancient philosophers and modern scientists tackling ...

With its clear, dark skies, northern Chile is home to two fifths of the world's astronomical infrastructure, but could that be under threat with increasing urbanisation and mining development?

Federal President Steinmeier visits Chile's observatories threatened by industrial pollution, emphasizing the need for ...

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by Reinhard Genzel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for ...

"It feels like something out of science fiction," said European Southern Observatory astrophysicist Julia Victoria Seidel.

The planet WASP-121b is extreme. It's a gas giant almost twice as big as Jupiter orbiting extremely close to its star–50 ...

Scientists mapped exoplanet WASP-121b’s atmosphere, revealing extreme winds and hidden metals. Iron and titanium appear ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered the fastest planetary jetstream ever recorded, ripping across the equator of the giant ...