But new research has found the strongest candidate yet. The first author is Dayi (David) Li, a post-doctoral fellow in ...

Finding Earth’s exact position in the galaxy took centuries of observation and innovation. This story follows astronomers as ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered what seems to be a galaxy that is the most heavily dominated by ...

Long strands of glowing gas stretch behind a distant galaxy, dotted with pockets of newborn stars. The shape looks almost biological, like tentacles drifting through water.

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Hours after saying that Barack Obama acted improperly by allegedly sharing classified information with Americans when he said ...

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could ...

This discovery has drawn interest from both professional researchers and skywatchers because comets are ancient remnants from the early formation of ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the ...

PROOF of alien life is one step closer to being found thanks to a massive earthquake-proof telescope that’s near completion ...

Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

The numbers arrived with the dispassion of a telemetry readout: 10.5 years of observations, 200 billion individual detections ...