A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon, according to a new paper published in Nature...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a nearby...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky...
A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years....
A group of scientists working at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), Pune have for the first time unraveled...
A new technique developed in part by University of Hawaiʻi astronomer Nader Haghighipour has allowed scientists to quickly detect a...
Volunteer citizen scientists parsing data from a network of telescopes around the world this year identified 10,000 new variable stars...
German astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a recently discovered polar known as J1832.4-1627. This object is the first deeply...
Forming planets are one possible explanation for the rings and gaps observed in disks of gas and dust around young...
After decades of uncertainty, researchers have confirmed the existence of lunar carbon dioxide cold traps that could potentially contain solid...
The United States said Monday it was investigating a “debris-generating event in outer space” after astronauts on the International Space...
A massive asteroid will whiz past the Earth on Saturday, but hold any thoughts of disaster movies. Though NASA defines...
