NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured stunning, never-seen-before imagery of a cosmic tarantula located 161,000 light-years away. The breathtaking photography caught 30 Doradus, nicknamed Tarantula ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using ...

Astronomers have detected an unusually powerful and compact object in a nearby galaxy, one so bright and unique that it may ...

The most distant fast radio burst ever observed, originating from a time when the universe was just three billion years old, ...

The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.

Scientists may have found the hiding place of missing cosmic sulfur—in icy space dust, bound in crown-shaped and chain-like molecules that escape detection. For years, scientists studying the ...

Chile's the CiELO project is opening new frontiers in the study of how galaxies form and evolve, positioning the country as a ...

Planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth. The Alpha Centauri system, our nearest stellar neighbor, has long captured the imagination of science fiction and ...

"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...