A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Using NuSTAR and XMM-Newton satellites, astronomers from New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi have observed a pulsar known as ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Washington used some fancy technology (WMAP data on the cosmic microwave ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...