X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light.

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

A lawsuit seeks to recover damages after unexpected bird strike triggered crash at NASA's former shuttle landing facility.

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

Chinese infiltration of U.S. universities has been a focus of the Trump administration, producing charges in cases linked to ...

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Operator Solutions staffs an operations center inside its headquarters off Apollo Boulevard at Melbourne Orlando ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.