This cloud is a window into the dark Universe,” study co-author and Space Telescope Science Institute (STCScl) team member ...

The latest finding offers "a window into the dark universe,” said one of the researchers behind the groundbreaking discovery.

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer space ...

A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the country’s national broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has an eye for bling. A new image released by the European Space Agency shows the powerful telescope’s latest — and decidedly glamorous — finding: a bright quasar that ...

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the ...

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