Astronomy

Humans may be destined to wipe out all other life in the cosmos, but we're sure stumbling at the first hurdles when it comes to...

According to NASA, over 78 percent of confirmed exoplanets were discovered using the transit method, which involves analyzing how much...

As it becomes more common to discover exoplanets in distant (or nearby) solar systems, we're starting to see more variety in the weird...

Obviously, it's a good thing that we don't have any black holes too close to our solar system, but occasionally we get a good reminder...

NASA is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to scientific research: Between the Hubble and Chandra telescopes, the multiple...

The 2015 Dawn mission to explore the dwarf planet Ceres may not have turned up evidence of life, but it did find the next best thing:...

When astronomers talk about observing the "cosmic background radiation," you might think it's the sort of signal that can only be...

Using revolutionary new planet-finding techniques and data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in northern...

One thing that the Hubble Space Telescope is very good at is tracking down galactic collisions. Regardless of how common it is for...

You've likely seen the famous Hubble telescope photo of the Pillars of Creation — the long trunks of a nebula which resemble the...

The center of a galaxy tends to be the most interesting part, not least because that's often where a supermassive black hole is...

While we're not expecting to travel to Earth-like planets anytime soon, scientists are still preoccupied with finding them, if only to...

Three rocky, Earth-like exoplanets have been discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope's K2 mission.

These objects should get pulled apart when they get close to the black hole. Instead, they keep themselves together and keep orbiting,

Ever since astronomers realized that the closest Earth-like exoplanet, Proxima b, is probably an irradiated hellscape, excitement...

When astronomers spotted strange patterns of dimming and brightening from KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's Star, none of the...

Back in 1977, astronomers probably scoffed at the twin suns of Luke Skywalker's home planet for the same reason modern scientists...

Right now, we're pretty sure that Mars had liquid water on its surface at one point and that it was probably hospitable to life.  ...

In sci-fi movies, when a space object is hurtling towards Earth it's a really big deal. There are countdown clocks, scientists running...

An exoplanet (a term which simply means a planet in another solar system) like WASP-127b is one of the last places you'd expect to...