We have found evidence for the second-biggest black hole in our Milky Way, challenging our understa…

Venus, known as a scorching wasteland of a planet, may have once had tectonic plate movements simil…

Contributing author and director of Curtin University's Space Science and Technology Centre (S…

Astronomers detected a pulse of radio waves, called a fast radio burst, in a faraway galaxy. The si…

Plants grown in moon dirt showed signs of stress, were smaller, and grew more slowly than their cou…

Using NASA satellite data, researchers observed a new class of stellar explosion, which is similar …

Radio telescopes are detecting more mysterious signals. They switch on and off and don't match any …

If this planet exists, it's orbiting a dead star or a black hole and it only passes through Earth's…

Albert Einstein predicted that black holes warp space-time, and astronomers just saw the proof - fl…

Astronomers have discovered more than 100 new trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located…

"A 5% failure rate is actually better than most historical constellations, particularly for this si…

"The observations made on this target were immediately exciting," Bill Goff, who is a member of the…

Dheeraj Pasham will begin a post-doctoral research position at Nasa Goddard in late August.

"The most exciting part of this result is that we were able to make these observations of an exopla…

The researchers will also be able to use this technique to accurately map other areas of our galaxy…

After surveying 5 million stars throughout our galaxy, researchers identified seven that may host D…

Scientists have discovered that the moon contains a vast underground cave on the side of a deep pit…

Archaeologists used high-tech methods to find a strange L-shaped structure in Giza, Egypt. Above gr…

"Super puff" WASP 107b confused scientists for years. Now, two independent teams of astronomers thi…

A very early galaxy puzzling scientists suggests supermassive black holes may not have come from de…