From the ancient Assyrians and Greeks, to the greatest minds of the Renaissance, and up to the billionaire space explorers of ...

A newly discovered interstellar comet could be older than the Solar System, and scientists think it carries secrets from the dawn of the galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers have detected the most massive black hole merger ever observed, challenging stellar evolution and black hole formation theories.

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Dr. Chip Fletcher, dean of the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, on Spotlight Now. A new study from the UH Manoa shows coral reefs and other marine ...