The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9." ...

Abstract: With the rapid growth of telescopic technologies and space exploration missions, the amount of astronomical data captured as images, videos, and audio from satellites has increased ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the object nears its closest approach to Earth later this month. Comet 3I/ATLAS has ...

New Hubble images have revealed objects with shapes and patterns that don’t match any known class of celestial bodies. Scientists expected distant stars and nebulae, not these unusual structures.

The initial magnitude scale was established by Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 135 B.C.E., categorizing approximately 850 stars into six ranges from 1st (brightest) to 6th (faintest) magnitude.

This engine won't be fueling interstellar missions, but still finds an unexpected way to use deep space energy to generate power. Reading time 3 minutes Deep space may provide hidden sources of energy ...

"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" has often been treated as the weird stepchild of the "Star Trek" franchise because it deviated quite a bit from the standard, focusing on a space station in a fixed ...

Claire North is a successful and prolific novelist, writing under three separate names, but this is their first shift into classic science fiction, i.e. a novel with spaceships in it. I loved the ...

Get ready to see our galaxy like never before. Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency ...