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Tens of millions of years ago, the corpse of a star stole away too much gas from a neighbor and exploded, becoming a beacon in the cosmos — one that took a full year to fade away. Fortunately for scientists, the massive stellar explosion, called...

NASA scientists have discovered ten “Earth-like” planets that could be capable of hosting alien life. Boffins working with the ultra-powerful Kepler space telescope tracked the mysterious rocky planets that sit in the “habitual zone” of their stars. It means that, like Earth, the planets are...

Just days after it spotted a “bat shadow,” the Hubble Space Telescope has found a “feathered spiral” galaxy in deep space. The image, released by NASA and the European Space Agency, is of a galaxy known as NGC 2775. It is 67 million light-years away,...

On April 24, 1990, NASA’s Hubble space telescope was launched into orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Over the course of three decades, the orbiting telescope has provided a wealth of discoveries. About the size of a school bus, the telescope has shown the birth...

A new space telescope due to launch Wednesday (June 13) aims to shed a bright light on some of the darkest and most mysterious parts of the universe. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft is set to launch at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT)...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shared new photos of Neptune and Uranus, revealing some of the latest mysteries plaguing the ice giant planets. The pictures released Thursday pleased space enthusiasts who described the scenes as “spectacular” and “fascinating.” Many wanted to know what exactly was causing...

A jaw-dropping new photo shows a probable alien planet orbiting a star that lies 1,200 light-years from Earth. The potential planet appears as a brownish dot to the left of the bright bluish-white star CVSO 30 in the newly released image, which was captured by...

If the truth is out there, Colossus may find it. It would likely take a mega-telescope to locate aliens, which may be found by the heat their civilizations give off, astronomers say, according to Space.com. Enter: Colossus. The proposed alien hunter telescope would cost $1...

A distant star is getting a lot of attention from astronomers – possibly as a sign that alien life is out there. The star KIC 8462852 was discovered through Planet Hunters, a citizen science program at Yale University. Taking data from the Kepler Space Telescope,...

The largest radio telescope in the world is getting ready to start listening to the cosmos now that it’s finished, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced on Sunday. The mammoth telescope, located in the mountains of Guizhou, China, has an aperture that’s over 1,600...