An unusual elliptical galaxy with a history of absorbing smaller galaxies appears to be approaching its next target.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of ...

Meet Tylos: a gas giant 900 light years away and with a climate never seen before on any planet known to scientists.

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

But, its most distinctive feature is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Star jets: This striking image features a relatively rare ...

Konstantin Batygin, of the California Institute of Technology, will present a lecture at 11 a.m. EDT on April 5, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series. Coffee, ...

In these gorgeous photos ... from the outer reaches of the solar system from his perch in the cupola on the International Space Station. The joint NASA/ESA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids. NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids, like ...

The Ring Nebula is a stunning cosmic cloud of gas and dust, formed by a dying star.

He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope ... was at Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles ...

Despite their weak... Data from the now-collapsed Arecibo Observatory continues to drive major discoveries in space science. Sofia Sheikh and her team from the SETI Institute utilised archived ...

NASA is launching a new space telescope ... (Pawel Libera/Getty Images) NASA said SPHEREx, which should launch into space 'no earlier' than February 27, aims to complete 'four all-sky maps in its ...