The largest asteroid to pass by Earth this year will approach within some 1.25 million miles (two million kilometers) of...
Five years after its discovery, one of the Milky Way’s most exciting exoplanets just got even more intriguing. GJ 1132...
Data from the NASA spacecraft’s journey to Jupiter suggests that Mars may be shedding dust into interplanetary space. Look up...
With the help of the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered and studied in detail...
An asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower will zip past Earth Friday (March 5) and be out of our...
You may not be all that familiar with planet LHS 3844b, but it now has its own particular distinction: It’s...
An exoplanet just 26 light-years away looks like the one of the best we’ve found yet for peering into the...
On 21 May 2019, from a distance of 7 billion light-years away, our gravitational wave detectors were rocked by the...
A study, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and carried out with OSIRIS, an instrument...
In a stormy Hawaiian sky in July 2017, streaks of red and blue lightning seemed to meet above a bed...
What remains of the star that exploded just outside our galaxy in 1987? Debris has obscured scientists’ view, but two...
Tiny, all-but-undetectable primordial black holes could be one of the mysterious sources of mass that contributes to dark matter. There...
