The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across.

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A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

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Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

In addition to the double ring, the program found two other examples. In RAD J122622.6+640622, astronomers saw a galaxy ...

A newly discovered dwarf planet could hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of our solar system’s outer reaches — but what ...

From GPS to innovations in computing and optics, technologies developed for space research at UC Santa Cruz touch nearly ...

Even still, according to a letter from the Smithsonian to Congress, the institute has been asked to work with NASA to prepare ...

One of Virginia’s crown jewels of tourist attractions, the Discovery Space Shuttle, could be blasting off somewhere else as U ...