Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

The freshly minted telescope discovered 2,000 previously unknown asteroids in just 10 hours. Weirdly, NASA doesn’t seem to ...

Scientists have discovered the farthest-ever 'mini-halo,' a sea of charged particles around a distant galaxy cluster that ...

I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a simulation of the Milky Way bloom above us, while the actor Pedro ...

Since then, these mysterious bursts coming from way beyond our Milky Way have been called fast radio bursts ... caused by a black hole collision that happened 1.3 billion years ago. The best part is ...

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Researchers have used machine learning to dramatically speed up the processing time when simulating galaxy evolution coupled with supernova explosion. This approach could help us understand the ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a comet from another star system.

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...