It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

A new video shows the evolution of Kepler's Supernova Remnant using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured over ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...