Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space telescope's upcoming 35th anniversary.

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

The DSCOVR satellite's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured the moon transit the Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA EPIC Team | produced & edited by Steve Spaleta ...

K2-18b, an exoplanet 120 light-years away, may be the best hope to confirm that life exists beyond Earth. Here's what to know ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

The unifying message of Monday's all-woman rocket flight is that, for now, cold space belongs to the hot and rich.

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...