A team of astronomers have discovered one of the closest potentially habitable planets outside of the solar system. The planet was found orbiting a small red dwarf star 14 light years away.
A large asteroid known as 2003 SD220 will pass by the earth-moon system on Christmas Eve at a safe distance of 6,787,600 miles, astronomers announced.
With the use of NASA/ESA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have solved the missing water mystery of ten Jupiter-like exoplanets.
In April 2015, a flood of powerful gamma rays slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. Now, scientists have taken a closer look at the data captured by the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS).
A new study is shedding light on some galaxies "clumpiness" compared to those spiral shaped galaxies.
The Hubble Space Telescope has a spiral galaxy that resembles an atomic nucleus, the galaxy was identified as 'NGC 7252' which is also known as the "Atoms for Peace" galaxy.
Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 has successfully entered its target orbit and it is on its way to meet with a distant asteroid.
Scientists have spotted a few ancient clusters hidden behind younger stars and are understanding the beginnings of our galaxy.
Japan's "Akatsuki" probe has successfully entered Venus' orbit, after failing in its first attempt.
ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured the aftermath images of a cosmic collision that occurred 360 million years ago.
A new study is shedding light on the origin of heavy elements in the Universe and mergers of binary neutron stars may be the source for radioactive plutonium-244 in nature.
After numerous observations, astronomers found that supernova SN2011dh, a massive supergiant star is thirteen times the size of the sun. This supernova is quite famous for its high-velocity shocks.
