Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Scientists have found the heaviest known pair of dead stars in our galaxy — a rare system they believe will one day explode ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way Galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Black holes and quasars are some of the most mysterious entities in the cosmos. Check out these 7 stunning images of black holes and quasars captured by NASA.

The last commands have been sent to the ESA's Gaia satellite and, after a dozen years scanning the galaxy, the spacecraft is ...