Medicine & TechnologyNew study findings have shown that the first comet identified to visit the Sun after its birth around an alien star may be the most pristine comet ever discovered.
Vast halo of dark matter around Tucana II is said to be five times larger than previously estimated. The dwarf galaxy is 163,000 light years from Earth.
Computer simulations show that head-on collisions between galaxies can STRIP them of matter, leaving the black holes at their centers with nothing to feast on.
Astronomers found a planetary system including six planets, and it's not quite like anything they've seen before. Will it change the theories of how planets form?
At an incredible speed, the exoplanet classified as WASP-62b flails around the parent star. With a fully cloudless atmosphere, the planet is a hot Jupiter.
Every colliding black hole or neutron star should send ripples ringing across spacetime. Experts may have just caught the first hint of gravitational wave background.
A new study describes a possible new kind of star in an occurrence usually linked to destruction, instead of a creation or also known in the field of astronomy as "the merger of two white dwarfs."