Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy about 100 million light-years away, which is close in space terms. It has a strange shape and a golden haze coming from its center. This is because it's merging with a ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from NASA’s now-retired Kepler Space Telescope regarding the orbital shapes, also known as eccentricities, on 1,646 exoplanets whose sizes range between ...

By studying the shape of LBN 483 and the way that shape arises from outflows emanating from the protostars, and plugging those details into numerical simulations of star formation so that they can ...

New research published in the Earth and Planetary Science Letters journal suggests the moon's oldest crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, may be round, as opposed to the oval shape than scientists ...