Stephen Hawking's eerie alien theory might explain why we've never been contacted ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe’s “cosmic web” — the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing ...

The Milky Way's galactic bulge, the bulbous region that surrounds the galactic center, contains a dense collection of stars, planets, and other free-floating objects. This region has been studied for ...

Douglas Adams – who died 25 years ago today – had a rare gift for not writing. He excelled at it. He would spend days, weeks, ...

And the views are stunning, too. Astronomers have captured an extraordinary new look at the hidden birthplaces of star ...

Newtons Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 ...

Credit: Kamalika Chakraborty A bizarre pair of planets 190 light-years away is forcing astronomers to rethink how planetary ...

It's true, though: outer space does have a smell, or rather, many smells. The cosmos isn't sterile or empty, after all. It's ...

If you loved watching Ryland Grace MacGyver his way through impossible problems in space, you need to meet Mark Watney. He's ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spiral galaxy’s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from NASA’s ...