In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, has just gotten a bit smaller, at least according to the latest data. New ...

An interstellar comet racing through our solar system released methanol, methane and cyanide, NASA says. Could these life linked molecules hint at how worlds across the cosmos are seeded?

"We were very surprised to see this structure," said astrophysicist Theo Khouri of Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology.

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

Dark matter keeps getting blamed for the universe’s big patterns while staying stubbornly out of reach. You cannot see it, touch it, or capture it.

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

Since the 1990s, astronomers have found a handful of other dwarf planets in the belt, such as Eris and Sedna, along with ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...

Acolytes of "Farscape" can attest to the series' innumerable merits and it's an ideal way for Valentine's Day revelers to spend a rousing evening bingeing episodes. Astronaut John Crichton falls into ...