Magnetar flares produce gold, platinum, and other heavy elements in our galaxy, says new research on a strange cosmic flash ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of Arp 184, also known as NGC 1961, a peculiar spiral ...

The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

NASA's Lucy spacecraft discovered a mysteriously shaped asteroid, Donaldjohanson, revealing features that could revolutionize ...

Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a ...

What's more, no exoplanets with emission spectra cooler than 275 K (1.85 °C; 35.33 °F) - comparable to Earth - have been ...

National Space Day, May 2, can inspire the next generation of astronomers, encouraging people to look to the sky.

The possibility of Planet Nine being out there way beyond Pluto has always excited astronomers. They have now found one body ...

There's disappointment for astronomers as the newly-discovered bright green comet appears to have disintegrated ...

"Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and ...

Flares from a supermagnetized star may have generated as much as 10 percent of our galaxy’s heavy elements.