NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

Orbiting observatories were supposed to escape the glow and clutter that plague ground-based astronomy, but the next ...

A team of astronomers using a variety of ground and space-based telescopes including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies (Feb. 6, $26, ISBN 978-0-226-84932-4) ...

December nights are the longest — and often some of the coldest — of the year. While some may dread December’s darkness, ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations have revealed a galaxy that shouldn’t exist, a complex spiral galaxy named ...

Odd radio waves emanating from the ice don’t fit our model of particle behavior. Could they be a sign of dark matter?

A scientist has identified a possible astronomical explanation for the Star of Bethlehem, as described in the Bible ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters will also contaminate observations by four space telescopes, including Hubble ...