A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The research suggests that the universe has become “messier and more complicated” over time, with a less clumpy distribution of matter.

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Like most of us, Earth has a lot going on under the surface — even in what may have once seemed to be ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

An international team, including researchers from UNIGE and NCCR PlanetS, has discovered a super-Earth, referred to as HD ...