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Scientists discover closest star-shredding black hole to Earth ever seenAstronomers comparing maps of the universe uncovered the nearest example of a black hole devouring a star ever detected.
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1st-ever close-up photo of Mars' moon Deimos reveals the Red Planet's violent pastA satellite from the United Arab Emirates revealed that Mars' moon Deimos is made of the same material as the Red Planet itself, hinting at an ancient collision.
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How to watch Europe launch its alien-hunting JUICE satellite live on ThursdayThe European Space Agency is sending a probe called JUICE to Jupiter's moons — and we've got all the info you need to watch the launch.
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Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA saysA bizarre 'ultraluminous X-ray source' shines millions of times brighter than the sun, breaking a physical law called the Eddington limit, a new study finds.
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James Webb telescope discovers the 4 oldest galaxies in the universe, born just 300 million years after the Big BangAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the four oldest galaxies in the known universe, which are forming stars much faster than thought possible.
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Strange radio signals detected from Earth-like planet could be a magnetic field necessary for lifeEarth's magnetic field protects life on our blue planet — and astronomers just found evidence of a magnetic field on a rocky exoplanet 12 light-years away.
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James Webb telescope detects light from a small, Earth-like planet — and finds it's missing its atmosphereNASA's James Webb Space Telescope measured the temperature of the Earth-like planet TRAPPIST-1b and found that it is too hot for humans and likely has no atmosphere.
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Object mistaken as a galaxy is actually a black hole pointed directly at EarthAn object once thought to be a radio galaxy is actually an active black hole that changed angles to point directly at Earth, new research suggests.
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Aliens could be hiding in 'terminator zones' on planets with eternal nightAlien life could thrive in terminator zones, the edges between the light and dark sides of planets that are tidally locked with their host stars.
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'Unstable' moons may be obliterating alien life across the universeSimulations show that collisions between moons and planets may be a regular danger for possible extraterrestrial life.
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NASA scientists 'weigh' a white dwarf for the first time using a space-time trick predicted by EinsteinNASA astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a white dwarf, an important step for understanding how stars die.
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Astronomers weighed the Milky Way, and found huge amounts of matter missingMysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) helped astronomers weigh our galaxy, and reveal that some matter is missing.
