Space

A new signal emanating from space has been traced to what astronomers believe is a new super-Earth orbiting our second-closest star,...

What is currently the oldest solid material on Earth has just been discovered hiding in an ancient Australian meteorite, according to...

Over 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way galaxy devoured a smaller dwarf galaxy named Gaia-Enceladus. We can see the wreckage in the...

The very first “intervenusian” asteroid has been confirmed, according to reports from Live Science and The Virtual Telescope...

Astronomers using an innovative new observation technique on the Hubble Telescope have uncovered the strongest proof yet for the...

While the rest of you have already stopped going to the gym despite your resolutions to "get fit" in 2020, NASA's TESS satellite has...

NASA reports that the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite – or TESS – just returned data revealing its first Earth-like...

NASA has just released truly stunning panoramic view of the Milky Way galaxy using the infrared camera on its airborne telescope, the...

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array telescope in Chile just imaged two supermassive black holes being hurled towards each other as...

Last night, SpaceX launched the first rocket of 2020 – and surpassed Planet Labs to become the largest private satellite operation,...

NASA astronomers combined forces with visualization specialists to create a three-dimensional video of what it looks like deep inside...

heic2002 — Photo Release To kickstart the 30th anniversary year of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble has imaged a...

2019 was an interesting year for Outer Places, mostly because it was an interesting year for the rest of the world. We were – and...

This year marks the 30-year anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope launch. To celebrate the occasion, ESA/Hubble released...

If you want to observe the Earth's latest orbit but the thought of standing in a throng of people wearing disposable diapers waiting...

One of the brightest stars in our sky is the dimmest it has been in 100 years, according to a report in National Geographic. The...

When NASA astronaut Ron Garan attached himself to a robotic arm that swept him in an arc over the International Space Station, giving...

eso1921 — Science Release Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have observed reservoirs of cool gas around some of the...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. But a new theoretical abstract asks us to consider whether binary black...

Scientists using data from NASA’s NICER telescope onboard the ISS have created the first-ever surface map of a pulsar, according to...