NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would mention asteroids. That's easy to understand. The typical asteroid lacks the jaw ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt and the closest dwarf planet to Earth. Discovered in 1801 and visited by ...

In a blow to anyone dreaming that complex life may exist elsewhere in the universe, a new study suggests we're unlikely to ...

Scientists have identified an unexpected way to study the hidden space weather of distant stars by observing strange, ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also ...

Astronomers have captured the most detailed look yet at faraway galaxies at the peak of their youth, an active time when the adolescent galaxies were fervently producing new stars.