A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

A new moon has been discovered orbiting Uranus, thanks to a team led by the Southwest Research Institute and including ...

"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranus. The discovery brings ...

LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, has been called the most precise ruler in the world for its ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and ...

A new planet discovered? The Hubble Space Telescope has detected an exciting new exoplanet, adding to the growing list of ...

In a breakthrough study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers have discovered a new origin for some of the fastest stars ...

NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of astrophysics and other space science topics at the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Saturday, Jan. 4, through ...

Stacker compiled a list of 30 mind-blowing space discoveries after searching news archives and reports from NASA. Click through to see what they’ve uncovered—from a super-Earth and sun twins ...