A newly discovered celestial object may be a starless cloud that could change how astronomers understand dark matter.

At 710 meters (just under half a mile) wide, this space rock sets a record for how fast it spins on its axis: about one ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9." ...

The universe may be asymmetric, not identical in all directions The cosmic dipole anomaly challenges the standard Lambda-CDM ...

Looking up at the night sky feels like you’re seeing the universe. But physicists say most of it is missing from view. Not ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a ...

Humans are captivated by the idea of finding life elsewhere in the universe – and even more by the idea that life, if found, ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered bizarre “platypus galaxies” in the early universe, exhibiting an unusual ...

"We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price," Pete Klupar, executive director ...

Around the area this weekend, a homecoming concert for Mavis Staples, Adler telescopes in Elk Grove Village and the Young ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...