NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of millions of galaxies and their shared cosmic glow since the beginning ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

An international team has discovered a giant spiral disk galaxy in the early cosmos which is three times larger than similar ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

Inverse sat down with space engineer and sci-fi author Gentry Lee about his new documentary 'Starman,' and his thoughts on ...

All winter long I’ve been meaning to write about the little constellation Aries the Ram, and finally on this last weekend of ...

All winter long, I have been meaning to write about the little constellation Aries the Ram, and finally, on this last weekend of winter, I am getting around to it. It is a good thing because Aries ...

Scientists have discovered that strange radio pulses from the Ursa Major constellation originate from a pair of stars, a ...

Answer: For near stars, astronomers use a method called parallax. During Earth’s orbit, near stars seem to shift their position against the farther stars. This is called parallax shift. By ...

All winter long I’ve been meaning to write about the little constellation Aries the Ram, and finally on this last weekend of winter I’m getting around to it. It’s good timing, because Aries is about ...