The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star-forming region within a nearby satellite ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to several hundred of years. The remnant is located in the "Large Magellanic ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

A celestial body is any natural object outside Earth's atmosphere. This includes stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets and meteoroids.

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station, uses his camera to capture stunning images of ...

Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and ...

"By putting together the individual results, like in a puzzle, we reconstruct the formation history of these systems." ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton telescope have made an unexpected discovery—two supernova remnants ...

Mild temperatures are returning, so get ready for some relief! By Sunday, we’ll see highs in the low 40s with a mix of sun and clouds. Then, the big warm-up is coming by Tuesday, when temperatures ...

Here comes the melting! Highs will finally crack the freezing mark this weekend with mid 30s Saturday and 40 degrees in some spots Sunday. Runoff from the snowbanks will re-freeze at night, so be ...