In 1986, the author talked to the BBC about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the epic series of comic novels loved by ...

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

Scientists have uncovered “Quipu,” the largest known galactic structure, stretching 1.4 billion light-years. This discovery ...

Hubble's study reveals Andromeda experienced major galactic collisions, unlike Milky Way. Its satellite galaxies show unusual ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...

Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...

The triple star system is sending comets, asteroids and meteors our way, and the number of interstellar objects entering the solar system will rise.

New research suggests that interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov arrive near Earth far more frequently than ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

SPHEREx is set to launch at Friday from California. Here are five things to know about NASA's latest advanced space telescope ...

Whether aliens could detect our modern civilization depends on what signs they’re looking for—and, crucially, their distance ...