Space

A black hole has been reaching across galaxies to trigger star formation in a phenomenon unlike anything astronomers have ever seen,...

What if planets orbit a black hole the same way they orbit stars? According to Phys.Org, that is precisely the question that...

When Voyager 2 slipped into interstellar space it marked a new foray into uncharted waters, and the first data that it returned is...

While Richard Branson and Elon Musk battle for primacy as private partners with NASA, the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) – a global...

An international team of scientists has pulled back the curtain to reveal what creates mysterious plasma “spicules” on our Sun,...

It seems like the stuff of science fiction to see huge planets wheeling across the sky, but that’s exactly what amateur astronomer...

Yesterday morning in the Hebei mountains, far removed from the tumult in Hong Kong, a tiny Martian lander plummeted 230 feet, stopping...

Five million years ago the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy ejected a bright blue star – now, it’s 29,000...

If you’re reading this before 12:30 p.m. EST there’s still time to catch an astronomical event that won’t happen again for...

Another manmade spacecraft has “slipped the surly bonds” of the solar system and entered the uncharted abyss of interstellar...

Is it chicken or is it fish? While some of us may never unravel the existential mysteries of Starkist canned tuna, according to early...

NASA is considering a return to the farthest reaches of our solar system with new grants for funding a research expedition to Pluto,...

Scientists have discovered a possible new type of black hole – and though it be but little, it is fierce. According to reports from...

The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope caught a glimpse of a “jack-o-lantern nebula” frozen in an eerie scream just in time for...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument – or DESI for short – is, as Emperor Palpatine so aptly put it, “fully armed and...

A team of Russian theoretical physicists has proposed the radical new theory that white dwarf stars have what some are calling a...

ESO Photo ReleaseAstronomers using ESO’s SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea...

Astronomers caught a glimpse of a massive, ancient galaxy that billowed into formation just after the Big Bang – a behemoth that’s...

Scientists discovered a vein of heavy elements in the wreckage left behind a cataclysmic neutron star merger and finally revealing how...

Astronomers at the University of California Los Angeles have reverse-engineered a genius way to determine what the cores of exoplanets...