Researchers claim to have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to discover an entirely new type of celestial object: dubbed ...

Far beyond the bright pinwheels and glowing nebulae that dominate space photography, astronomers have finally confirmed ...

Astronomers have uncovered the long-hidden cause behind Betelgeuse’s strange behavior: a small companion star carving a visible wake through the giant’s vast atmosphere. Using nearly eight years of ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have identified an entirely new type of cosmic object. It is a cloud rich ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground ...

A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...

Beehive cluster, a group of 1,000 stars, will be visible to stargazers in January. How to see it, what’s visible to naked eye ...

But first, a bit of space telescope history. One of the most powerful space-based telescopes to be launched into the Earth’s ...

They expect that this dark matter cloud, technically a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud (RELHIC), is a primordial remnant of a ...

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

The solar system’s largest planet shines bright as the Moon wanes and Saturn’s moons dance in the sky this week.

The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.