WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch-like jet from a supermassive black hole at the core of a huge galaxy seems to cause stars to ...

Unfortunately, scientists are still unsure if life could survive there for long. Some argue that red dwarf suns are too ...

The reason we call dark matter dark isn't that it's some shadowy material. It's because dark matter doesn't interact with ...

The Milky Way as we know it today was shaped by a collision with a dwarf galaxy about 10 billion years ago. But most of the modern galaxy was already in place even at that early date, new research ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology ...

These two images allow you to see how difficult it is to spot these dwarf galaxy candidates in the Dark Energy Camera's images. The first image is a snapshot of DES J0335.6-5403, a celestial ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered an isolated cosmic fossil, which may offer new insight on galaxy formation. Located about 3 million light-years from Earth, the Tucana Dwarf galaxy sits at ...

NASA's Hubble Telescope captured this image of spiral galaxy IC 1954 which is located in the Horologium constellation. This galaxy is about 45 million light-years away and was first discovered in 126 ...

CGCG014-074 is an early-type dwarf lenticular galaxy, located in the vicinity of NGC 4546—a massive lenticular galaxy at a distance of about 46 million light years away.