December 12, 2017 Get set for the Geminid meteor shower Star-gazers are in for a treat this week when the annual Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak on Wednesday and Thursday.
December 11, 2017 NASA to make major announcement Thursday, will reveal new Kepler discovery NASA has announced it will make an announcement surrounding a new discovery from its Kepler mission, a space telescope used to find exoplanets.
December 7, 2017 Oldest monster black hole ever found is 800 million times bigger than the Sun Astronomers have discovered the oldest supermassive black hole ever found — a behemoth that grew to 800 million times the mass of the sun when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age, a new study finds.
December 5, 2017 Winter solstice will mark shortest day, longest night of 2017 The winter solstice for the Northern Hemisphere is less than a month away.
November 29, 2017 72 unseen galaxies found hiding in plain sight Astronomers have found 72 potential galaxies hiding in plain sight inside a vast patch of the sky previously observed by the Hubble Space Telescope .
November 27, 2017 Losing darkness: Satellite data shows global light pollution on the rise Around the globe, in both developed and developing nations, Earth's night skies are being filled with artificial light more and more each year, according to a new study.
November 17, 2017 Earthbound antimatter mystery deepens after scientists rule out pulsar source More antimatter particles stream toward Earth than scientists can explain — and new research from a mountaintop observatory in central Mexico deepens the mystery by crossing off one possible source.
November 9, 2017 'Zombie star' keeps exploding, refuses to die, astronomers say A supernova that “cheated” death more than once is baffling astronomers — and still refuses to die.
November 9, 2017 Oldest spiral galaxy ever seen may reveal secrets about the Milky Way Astronomers have uncovered an ancient cosmic artifact 11 billion light-years from Earth: the oldest spiral galaxy ever seen.
November 3, 2017 Study identifies likely location of merging black hole giants Scientists on the hunt for colliding black holes should turn their eyes to the quiet, outer regions of galaxies like the Milky Way, a new study suggests.