From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers.

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling ...

Imagine a distant world, light-years away, where intelligent beings scan the cosmos, searching for hints of life. If their ...

Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...

These events, often called “planet parades” or “planetary alignments,” though not exceedingly rare, are worth observing since they don’t happen yearly.

Goddard Space Flight CenterGrowing up in Malaysia and Singapore, Hsiao Smith - now the deputy observatory manager for ...

Data from the Gaia spacecraft shows that even unassuming stars can host monumental companions like massive planets.

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

An "intelligent" liquid that has baffled scientists due to its ability to "choose" its own path to solve a maze has finally ...