Space rarely gives up its secrets easily. For instance, what looks like a single ...

The "ancient chemical remains of the first stars" may have discovered using the Gemini North telescope, according to NSF's NOIRLab. Credit: Images and Videos: PROGRAM/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, S.

Scientists report a possible pulsar at the Milky Way’s center, discovered through radio observations by the Breakthrough Listen team using the Green Bank Telescope, offering a new laboratory for ...

Scientists suspect that a rapidly spinning, highly magnetic neutron star, or "pulsar," dwells at the heart of the Milky Way.

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

Nasa has completed the assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This mission will map the universe 100 times faster than Hubble.

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery: a faint object nearly invisible is holding a collection of star clusters ...

An accomplished Caltech astrophysicist with more than four decades of research contributions in galactic astronomy and the study of distant planets was fatally shot in the Antelope Valley.

An astrophysicist who discovered water on another planet beyond our solar system was fatally shot outside his home this week. 67-year-old Carl Grillmair had worked with Caltech’s Infrared Processing ...

Carl Grillmair, a renowned Caltech scientist who discovered water on a distant planet, was fatally shot at his Los Angeles-area home. Authorities arrested a suspect in connection with the killing.