Leading science journalists provide a daily minute commentary on some of the most interesting develo
A galaxy four billion light-years from us was has three supermassive black holes at its center, with
The European Southern Observatory broke ground June 19th to build the world's largest telescope atop
The current solar maximum appears to be weak. But the few previously measured maxes could have been
A failed dwarf galaxy called the Smith Cloud apparently survived an ancient collision with the Milky
Pluto has at least five moons and an atmosphere—and now a new analysis places its diameter as bigger
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, once estimated to be 41,000 kilometers across, is just 16,500 kilometers w
When a white dwarf passes in front of its binary star system companion every 88 days, it acts like a
The star cluster HVGC-1 had been part of the M87 galaxy, but now it's fleeing that galaxy at more th
A brown dwarf only about three to 10 times Jupiter's mass couldn't get fusion going and now sits fre
Citizen scientists have helped professional astronomers locate more than 500 million lunar craters b
More than 100 tiny satellites are set to launch into space on April 14th, in a demonstration of a po
After prolonged periods in microgravity, astronauts' hearts became more spherical, according to scan
The asteroidlike object Chariklo orbits between Saturn and Uranus and has been found to have its own
An exhaustive search by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer has found no hints of a theorized
The half-the-speed-of-light spin of a giant black hole suggests it grew by digesting another black h
Spanish astronomers spotted a meteoroid impact at 61,000 kilometers per hour using a telescope netwo
The Hubble Telescope's new set of Frontier Fields images includes a galaxy some 13-billion light-yea
Galileo—who, among many accomplishments, was first to use a telescope to discover moons around Jupit
Exoplanet Kepler 413 b's tilt can vary by as much as 30 degrees over 11 years, leading to extremely
Astronomers have come up with a shopping list of what a planet needs to support life, perhaps even b
