Astronomy

If you thought moons always look ours--white, cratered, and sphere-shaped--Saturn's inner moons prove otherwise: of its roughly 150...

Quasars are among the brightest and farthest objects we've found throughout the known universe, but we haven't found very many. So...

For all the time we've spent looking up into space, we still don't know a whole lot about our local cosmic neighborhood outside the...

We're fairly used to oxygen here on Earth, so it may not be initially clear why it's so exciting that astronomers found some out on...

Back in the 1920s, theoretical astronomer and astrophysicist Donald Menzel identified Menzel 3, a nebula we now know as the Ant...

Despite several doomsday prophecies involving a hidden ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers (not doomsayers) may be the ones...

As our search for Earth-like exoplanets (which are simply planets in other solar systems) continues, one of the key things we look for...

Finding a black hole that's older than light itself is impressive (and more than a little unnerving). Finding a black hole that eats...

The biggest scientific breakthrough of our time might be buried under too much information.

Data from the NASA Galileo mission has confirmed the presence of liquid water on Jupiter's moon Europa.

This Mother's Day, instead of sending your mom a normal Earth rose, NASA wants you to send a giant, cosmic space rose.More...

Since its launch back in 2009, the Kepler Space Telescope has done nothing but look out for signs of exoplanets, which are simply...

A team of astronomers used music to unlock the mysteries of star formation in interstellar clouds.

Astronomers accidentally discovered a brand new "baby" exoplanet that has been hiding in plain sight for years.

Researchers at Columbia University's Cool Worlds laboratory – part of their Department of Astronomy – have discovered that...

With all the exoplanets we've been discovering lately, it's tough to actually find a clear sky in all these alien atmospheres.Until...

While Halley's Comet only appears every 75 years or so, we can see pieces of its debris every spring in a unique form of meteor...

Scientists and historians join forces to solve a modern mystery with ancient data.

An astronomer created an algorithm that turns astronomical data about the Milky Way galaxy into jazz music.

Helium, as the second most common element in the universe (the first is hydrogen), should be easy to detect. But outside Earth, we can...