astronomy
Scientists have found a planetary system circling one of the closest stars to us, and one of the planets could be habitable.
An asteroid half the size of the one believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs is passing 4.3-million miles from Earth.
Astronomers led by Gemini Observatory scientist Mischa Schirmer have discovered a new glowing "green bean" galaxy located in the constellation of Aquarius.
NASA's Cassini mission took an interesting photograph of the Saturn moon Tethys, in which the surface temperature distribution looks like Pac-Man.
Scientists have identified a planet that doesn't seem to orbit around any star, but rather wanders through space on its own.
Astronomers digging through old data from the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) in Chile have discovered a "Super-Earth" 44 light-years away from earth located in a habitable region of space.
Astronomers measure cosmic fog made by light of ancient stars; some starlight light found to be as old as 11.2 billion years
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a 9-gigapixel photo of the Milky Way galaxy.
Residing 5,000 light-years away, scientists say that the "gas giant" planet PH1 captures the light from four suns.
The comet, called Comet ISON, was discovered last week by two Russians at the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON).
A group of astronomers funded by NASA have discovered two new planets orbiting sun-like stars in a cluster of stars called "the Beehive." The discovery was recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Researchers have released a 3D map of over 500,000 galaxies and 100,000 quasars that helps them peer back in time to understand universe expansion and dark matter and dark energy.
