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

After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...

The York County Astronomical Society will offer a public starwatch 7-9 p.m. Saturday at their Observatory at John Rudy County ...

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

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

The hunk of space rock measures somewhere between 130 and 300 feet long, but its speed is unknown. “It’s a matter of ‘does it ...

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

Last summer, astronomer Calvin Leung was excited to analyze data from a newly built radio telescope. His goal was to pinpoint ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

Here’s what you should know when you go outside to see for yourself: Yes, the planets are indeed lined up across our sky. No, ...

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

In a study published today by The Astrophysical Journal Letters, a research team led by Yale University’s Imad Pasha ...