Astronomers have found a distant galaxy referred to as a cosmic fossil that has stayed virtually unchanged, or frozen in time ...

Can an asteroid, or two asteroids, crash into Earth in the next seven years? Scientists are observing these space rocks to ...

How many Earth-like exoplanets orbit M dwarf stars (Red dwarf stars), which are smaller and cooler than our Sun? This is what ...

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...

Astronomers have discovered the most distant mini-halo ever seen—10 billion light-years away—revealing that galaxy clusters ...

Effective July 1, W. Jud Ready will serve as the inaugural executive director of Georgia Tech’s new Space Research Institute ...

We’re essentially opening a new window on the transient universe” said Matthew Siebert of the Space Telescope Science Institute, capturing the awe that swept through the astrophysics community after ...

A theory by Albert Einstein has helped astronomers discover a rare exoplanet, sparking new ideas of where they can be found.

Hubble just spotted a ravenous black hole 174 million times the Sun’s mass inside UGC 11397. Buried in cosmic dust, it’s ...

One is the Suzaku satellite, which was jointly operated by JAXA and NASA and was very good at detecting very faint signals. The other is the ESA’s XMM-Newton, which is very good at observing powerful ...