To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

A pair of new research papers that were shared at a NASA press conference on Wednesday highlight recent discoveries that ... like giant chemical factories in space and could have also delivered ...

These short electromagnetic pulses resemble birdsong; however, they pose a significant threat to the functioning of satellites orbiting our planet. Where do these unique signals come from? An ...

Such a discovery and subsequent gold rush might ... in space and the militarization of Earth orbit. Whether a new Outer Space Treaty is a real possibility remains to be seen.

In this series, we cover provocative questions in astronomy. This week: the mysterious extragalactic signals known as Fast ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Just like the recent Andromeda news, Edwin Hubble’s discovery was officially ... the information to the New York Times in November of the previous year, according to Space.com’s Keith Cooper ...

The Arecibo Observatory is one of the biggest in the world, responsible for some of the most crucial discoveries about outer space — including one that led to a pair of scientists winning the ...