Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers says scientists are ‘in striking distance’ of finding life on an exoplanet ...

Though the mini-moon will only be in Earth’s orbit for about two months, it’ll stay close to the planet for a few months, ...

A supermassive black hole was spotted within the galaxy SDSS J1354+1328 located 900 million light-years from Earth. This is ...

Astronomers study stars by looking at the different colors of light they emit—colors they capture and analyze using ...

You’ll find Neptune just under 2° northwest of this star this evening. Through your telescope eyepiece, the planet’s disk ...

New infrared image highlights star formation triggered by merger-in-progress. Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines ...

If you are going to look for intelligent life beyond Earth, there are few better candidates than the TRAPPIST-1 star system.

A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...

Astronomers developed a technique that uses a star's spectrum to chart variations in its temperature to the nearest tenth of ...

On September 22, our satellite passes in front of the famous star cluster M45 in a rare, breathtaking event, producing ...

Scientists aren't sure if 2024 PT5 is an asteroid. At roughly 10 meters in length, 2024 PT5 is difficult to spot without a ...

New Starlink satellites’ radiation leaks are 30 times as large as those emitted by older satellites, scientists discover ...