In the constellation Cygnus, a bright knot of stars seems to adorn one edge of a nearly perfect 20-light-year-wide circle, ...

A structure of gas and dust, found in the constellation Cygnus, resembled a glowing diamond ring, and astronomers observed ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest globular star cluster to our home planet. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

New research shows that the magnetic part of light actively shapes how light interacts with matter, challenging a ...

New research shows that light’s magnetic field is far more influential than scientists once believed. The team found that ...