Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for life on Earth, along wit ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has detected a colossal coronal hole on the Sun’s surface, stretching an estimated 500,000 miles across—a size equivalent to 62 Earths lined up side by side.

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...