Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show.

Cosmic rays are high-energy particles from outer space that strike Earth's atmosphere, generating showers of secondary ...

A ruptured suit won’t make you explode in space, but it will steal your oxygen in ten seconds and boil the water in your tissues.

Somewhere in our galaxy are engines capable of driving atomic fragments to velocities that come within a whisker of ...

Astronauts Steven Smith and John Grunsfeld, appear as small figures in this wide-angle photograph from December 1999, taken ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

Astronomers from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in collaboration with international teams, ...

The object, named ASKAP J1832-0911, is located about 15,000 light-years from Earth in the same galaxy as our solar system.

What else don't we know about the cosmos? The Ansky black hole is over 300 million light-years away and is in the Virgo ...

It emits powerful radiation directly into the cosmic abyss. The Ansky black hole, situated in the Virgo constellation, has entered a mysterious cycle. What more might we not know about the cosmos? The ...