The familiar structure of the Lyra Nebula (or Ring Nebula) has just revealed an unexpected feature. At the heart of this celestial jewel, well-known to astronomers, lies a rectilinear ...

Astronomers realized that a strange cloud of gas was actually a relic of the ancient universe which might help solve some of ...

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9." ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of RELHICs—a long-theorized class of dark, starless clouds from the early universe.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy. An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory spotted the X-ray emissions by chance last year while focusing on a supernova remnant, or the remains of an exploded star. Wang said it was the first time X-rays had ...