The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

Our modern era of space observation and exploration deepens our connection with the universe—and with each other. When NASA ...

SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

NASA's upcoming Pandora mission will complement the James Webb Space Telescope by making it easier to detect water in the atmospheres of distant exoplanets.

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

The May 2024 solar storm created two new temporary belts of high-energy particles surrounding Earth. The findings are ...

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4214 resides about 10 million light-years away. The galaxy’s relative proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among its stars. This image from ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

ALIENS could discover humans on Earth by spotting one of 12 signs, scientists say. Topping the list is a clue that could be seen by extraterrestrials from a mammoth 12,000 lightyears away. The ...