Comets without tails, called dark comets, are a newly discovered space object. Now, astronomers know they come in 2 classes.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the ...

One of the most unexpected delights of the museum is its collection of space-themed art. From paintings depicting alien ...

Why is space so dark despite all of the stars in the universe? The question of why space is dark, even though it is filled ...

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

Scientists recently led a team that found, for the first time, that Chiron has surface chemistry unlike other centaurs. Its surface it has both carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ice along with carbon ...

Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of interstellar space.