The clearest and most precise images yet of the universe in its infancy—the earliest cosmic time accessible to humans—have ...

For half a decade, a mysterious television signal appearing to come from the sky left astronomers scratching their heads. Was ...

One of the most closely watched astronaut missions came to a dramatic close this week as NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore made their triumphant return.

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

New satellite data has shed light on how mysterious gravitational forces may have shaped the universe. The first survey data ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant known galaxy. The ...

Astronomers track the sun's 11-year cycle by counting sunspots. Also, we're expecting a strong geomagnetic storm and aurora ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and the Sun on Saturday in a rare event called an inferior conjunction, though it will be ...

Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda ...

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant galaxy ever observed, marking humanity's farthest-known discovery of ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.