To capture the essence of an ancient observatory, incorporate architectural features with arches. Think arched doorways or ...

The striking public art exhibition of Huma Bhabha at Brooklyn Bridge Park with the Public Art Fund features four haunting ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

In a nutshell A rare cosmic alignment has given astronomers an unprecedented view of two galaxies from 7 billion years ago, ...

ZUMA Press via Newscom, FILE Space junk originates from everything that is launched by human access to outer space -- including ... When considering objects between a centimeter or half a ...

Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.

Scientists have found two unusual objects in deep space. One is so big it could fit 21 Jupiters inside but is neither a star nor a planet. Gaia-5b is a brown dwarf, larger than a planet but too ...

The paper, Airspace closures due to reentering space objects, which was published in ... an associate professor at UBC and co-director of the Outer Space Institute, said there remains a belief ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times that of the sun, according to preliminary research Margherita Bassi ...

(CNN) — Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again. Observers ...