Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...

NASA's SPHEREx mission will survey the Milky Way galaxy looking for water ice and other key ingredients for life. In the ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

A glorious, colorful image captured by a telescope in Chile shows the bright glow of star cluster RCW 38, where young stars are being born.

Astronomers at NASA have caught a glimpse of a star system whipping through space at an unprecedented speed. While the system ...

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its ...

An asteroid becomes a meteorite when it travels to Earth from a nearby orbit or the outer solar system and collides with Earth, according to the United States Geological Survey. Small asteroids ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...

Astronomers have discovered a fast-moving star potentially carrying a planet across space at 1.2 million miles per hour, ...

Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly ...

Scientists have found the highest-energy cosmic neutrino called a "ghost particle" at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea ...