The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

The discovery of new exoplanets can help scientists understand how planets form and evolve. Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of ...

The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...

The study of the universe is a subject that never ceases to amaze the scientific community. If being able to know what is beyond our atmosphere has been something that has always b ...

Due to bad weather, NASA has delayed the launch of its two satellites to space with the dual mission to unravel cosmic and solar mysteries to Friday.NASA said it is targeting ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Interestingly, this sort of magnification, known as gravitational lensing, was first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915.

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...