If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Donald G. York, an astronomer with the University of Chicago who helped revolutionize the field as a co-founder of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and made pioneering contributions to the study of the ...

The satellite, aboard a SpaceX rocket that could lift off as early as this Sunday, is set to help reveal details about ...

Astronomers have identified an unusual cosmic object that appears to be a galaxy in name only, composed almost entirely of dark matter and lacking the stars that typically define such systems.

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a ...

A sideways spiral galaxy shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden), NGC 4388 is a resident of the Virgo ...

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Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of spiral galaxy UGC 2890. The "galaxy lies around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis," according to the Hubble team.

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. The billowing, vibrantly visualized formation located 20,000 light-years from Earth were imaged using the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has caputured new imagery of 9.5 light-years tall portion the Eagle Nebula, located 7000 light-years distant from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll, N. Bartmann (ESA ...