NASA and a team from the University of Chicago have found an odd, lemon-shaped exoplanet in deep space that might be ...

Observing the Universe often means contemplating phenomena that occurred millions of years ago. But sometimes, the opportunity arises to capture a cosmic event almost in real-time, as if we were ...

Astronomers may have caught their first glimpse of elusive dark matter in our own galaxy. Dark matter is an invisible and mysterious material scattered throughout the universe, making up about 85 ...

In a first, astronomers were able to capture a supernova in its very first moments. A star 22 million light-years away gave up the ghost and astronomers were able to react fast enough to watch the ...

CNN — Pioneering American astronomer Vera Rubin once mentored fellow aspiring female astronomers and advocated for women in science. It's fitting that the first national US observatory named for a ...

Astronomers have for the first time seen the birth of a magnetar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star—and confirmed that it's the power source behind some of the brightest exploding stars in the ...