A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

When NASA’s Juno spacecraft began its close passes over Jupiter, scientists expected to confirm long-standing theories.

A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

University of Chicago researchers have begun examining data collected by a device transported by a NASA balloon that flew ...

Things are much bigger outside the solar system.

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) team was one of two teams selected out of four finalists for NASA’s Earth System ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the ...