The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are rotating in sync with the filament.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi have discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars. The discoveries are the first results from OASIS (Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey),

In the late 1970s, a discovery unlike any other was made by a volunteer working in the Ohio State University Radio Observatory. This discovery remains the strongest possible evidence of life beyond Earth,

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi

Scientists have found mysterious space-gum vital to creating life in an asteroid sample. Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.

Within the next 18 months, the space shuttle Discovery may be disassembled in Washington D.C., transported more than 1,000 miles to Houston and reassembled. But not if grassroots group Keep The Shuttle has anything to say about it. The plan to move a ...

In 2010, NASA retired four space shuttles, sending them across the United States as a historical reminder of the nation's space history. But none remain in Houston, where NASA’s Johnson Space Center is located. Now, more than a decade later, U.S. Sens.

On November 28, 1967, astronomers found the first pulsar. A pulsar is a super-dense star that rotates super fast. As the pulsar spins, it emits two beams of light in opposite directions. When astronomers look at a pulsar,