A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

NASA’s Chandra finds black holes recycle gas, ensuring a constant fuel supply. Their outbursts cool matter, triggering a ...

The UN has activated planetary defense protocols for the first time to better determine the orbit, size, and threat posed by 2024 YR4, a rock discovered on December 27 that has a 1.6% chance of ...

Seven planets are set to appear in the night sky this month in a rare full planetary alignment. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, ...

Teams at Swansea University and King's College London have been working with scientists in Chile on the research. Work is ...

Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their lives.