Most big game may have disappeared from West Africa, but there are still plenty of exciting – and little known – creatures hidden away ...

Astronomers have identified a rare sednoid called Ammonite, an icy object beyond Neptune that offers new insight into the ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

Observations of the two solar system gas giants have revealed that Jupiter 's north pole hosts a central polar vortex ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

The supposed "strange signals" were not mysterious at all, but commonly observed transit signals, according to NASA.

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

A research team has successfully imaged a nova in high resolution—and the images suggest that the nova was not a single, impulsive explosion. A nova is an astronomical phenomenon that occurs in a ...

Scientists have identified phenomena in deep space that can act as naturally occurring “space weather stations” far beyond our solar system.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

The reason for this is both a fault in the stars and in ourselves: we don't see them as green because of the way stars emit ...