NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is no longer operating, but its data still has surprises. Astronomers re-checking observations from Kepler’s extended K2 mission have identified what looks like a small ...

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no star of its own roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth. Instead of circling ...

Located at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the supermassive black hole M87* holds a special place in the science history books: it’s the first black hole ever imaged and is the origin of ...

Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest "space laser" ever seen, blasting out from a distant galaxy collision ...

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The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are rotating in sync with the filament. When you purchase through links on our ...