In a nutshell A ticking cosmic time bomb lies just 160 light-years from Earth: Astronomers have discovered a rare double ...

Euclid is on a quest to unravel one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: why it's expanding faster and faster. With help ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future. Each year, according to Nasa, a chunk of rock the size of a car hurtles through space on a collision course with our ...

The First Steps" packed a major punch at CinemaCon with a first look at Silver Surfer and Vanessa Kirby's on-screen pregnancy ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...