"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea ...

A powerful new observatory is the best hope yet for finding the elusive Planet 9, a large planet that some scientists say is ...

This discovery offers a glimpse into the dramatic and explosive fates awaiting some of the universe's most fascinating ...

So they were pretty big! The other reason is because of how close the two huge dwarf stars are to each other. They are about 25 times closer to each other than our solar system's innermost planet ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

The next year of science on the James Webb Space Telescope has been announced amid mounting budgetary uncertainty that could ...

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is located 650 million light-years from Earth. It is the glowing remains of a dying star, much like our Sun.