Scientists have used the subtle movements of a distant star to help discover a new exoplanet—which is displaying signs of...
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations....
Exoplanets are experiencing a stratospheric rise. In the three decades since the first confirmed planet orbiting another star, scientists have...
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims...
An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend,...
A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics has presented the...
A galaxy that suddenly stopped forming new stars more than 13 billion years ago has been observed by astronomers. Using...
An international team of researchers led by Dr. Mungo Frost from the SLAC research center in California has gained new...
A spooky spider web, magical dragons or wispy trails of ghosts? What do you see in this image of the...
The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a...
The existence of dark matter is a long-standing puzzle in our universe. Dark matter makes up about a quarter of...
In the early 2000s, a new set of data revised the chemical abundances at the surface of the sun, contradicting...