Despite being a scenario widely pondered by astronomers and Hollywood writers for decades, further observations have since determined YR4 will not impact the Earth in 2032 as originally predicted.

The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck ...

An extreme protocluster gathering of infant galaxies is hiding a vast cosmic fuel tank that is powering 400 million years of intense star formation.

Astronomers spot two stars the size of Earth headed toward a violent explosion - This discovery offers a glimpse into the ...

A new comet has been discovered. Now getting closer to the sun and expected to brighten over the next few weeks, comet ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close ...

There’s more to the universe than meets the eye, he found. His studies led astronomy to the dark side, changing our view of ...

The team used more than a decade’s worth of observations of Uranus’ unique aurorae taken with Hubble and refined the planet’s ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen – one that had ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.