This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Travel back 390 million years after the big bang to the ancient Maisie's Galaxy in this stunning 3D visualization that ...

April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...

Scientists using South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope have peered into the interstellar medium like never before, uncovering ...

Nasa is tracking a potentially devastating “zombie star” as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000kmh. The immensely dense object is one of 30 known magnetars in the Milky Way, which are the ...

A controversial new theory about how the universe began rejects the widely-held belief that it started with the Big Bang. It ...

As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared new images that revisited ...

The political news these days is enough to make some Chicagoans wish they were a million miles away. But consider this: Even ...

This week, researchers uncovered the negative pressure mechanisms plants use to communicate stress. Linguists found that the ...

Astronaut Don Pettit will host a live conference on April 28 to discuss his 220-day mission on the International Space ...

In a close-up of the Rosette Nebula — a stellar nursery 5,200 light-years away — dark clouds of gas and dust are seen being carved by radiation from massive stars. A young star at the upper right is ...

According to the study conducted using Korean Microlensing data in which light from faraway objects is amplified through the ...