Astronomers viewing the asteroid belt with the Hubble Telescope havd found an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it like spokes on a wheel. P/2013 P5 is different from all…

Black holes, with gravitational forces so strong that not even light can escape them, come in a variety of sizes. On the smaller end of the scale are the stellar-mass black holes that are formed…

Two black holes in a collection of stars known as a globular cluster are not unique - another black hole candidate has been found in globular cluster M62. The globular cluster M62 is located in the…

The Smith Cloud, a gigantic streamer of hydrogen gas, is on a collision course with the Milky Way Galaxy., hurtling toward its doom at more than 540,000 miles per hour. But that means the impact will…

Kepler-78b is a planet that shouldn't exist because the blazing hot lava world circles its star every 8.5 hours at a distance of less than one million miles - one of the tightest known orbits.…

A newly discovered planet, Kepler-78b, is in the constellation of Cygnus but it's a lot like Earth. If Earth were 2,000 degrees hotter and orbited the sun every 8 hours.  But otherwise it is a…

The sun emitted another significant solar flare, peaking at 5:54 p.m. on Oct. 29th, 2013  – the fourth X-class flare in the last week. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation and…

On Oct. 23rd, 2013, the sun emitted a solar flare, classified as an M9.4 flare on a scale from M1 to M9.9 - near the very top of the scale for M class flares. Solar flares are powerful bursts of…

The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe; even colder than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space. How cold is that One…

Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin may be former football rivals, but There's a new most distant galaxy ever found, created within 700 million years after the Big Bang.…