Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

They expect that this dark matter cloud, technically a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud (RELHIC), is a primordial remnant of a ...

But first, a bit of space telescope history. One of the most powerful space-based telescopes to be launched into the Earth’s ...

Beehive cluster, a group of 1,000 stars, will be visible to stargazers in January. How to see it, what’s visible to naked eye ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is a cloud rich ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,” that could shed light ...

The Gemini North telescope and Subaru Telescope have been used to discover most distant merging quasars yet, "seen over 900 ...