Far out in the dark between the stars, a small visitor is carving a path through our solar system and leaving behind patterns ...

Astronomers have spotted an unexpected chemical heavyweight drifting through deep space - and it may offer new clues about how life gets started. Detected near the center of the Milky Way, the ...

Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...

Scientists recently discovered a mysterious object in outer space that, for a time, was sending out regular bursts of energy in a way that researchers hadn't previously observed. According to an ...

Dark matter doesn't absorb or give off light so scientists can't study it directly. But they can observe how its gravity ...

A hunk of space junk appears to have come in hot and heavy in Australia. On Saturday (Oct. 18), mine workers found a mysterious smoking slab sitting near a remote access road some 19 miles (30 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image shows the location of Cloud-9, which is 2000 light-years from Earth. The diffuse magenta is radio data from the ...

A strange gamma-ray glow emanating from the heart of the Milky Way could be the long-sought fingerprint of dark matter particles annihilating each other, evidence suggests. A new research effort ...

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion light-years away from Earth, has been unveiled. The first sighting of this ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most massive black holes in the universe." ...

Scientists have found mysterious space gum vital to creating life in an asteroid sample. Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu ...