Growing up in Midland, Nikki Nielsen didn't imagine she would be traveling around the world, let alone making breakthrough ...

In 6 billion years, the sun will expand into a red giant. That process should consume Mercury, and maybe Venus. For a long ...

Astronomers have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen — at 23 million light-years in length, they are as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies laid end to end. The enormous jet pair, ...

In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, ...

But if you're wrong, you've just wasted a lot of money and time. That is exactly what my team did when we pointed the Keck telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawai'i at what looked like empty space ...

The planet, with a mass about 1.9 times that of Earth, is orbiting the white dwarf about 4,200 light-years away from our ...

Beyond our solar system, countless alien worlds of lava, ice, water and noxious gas swirl through the cosmos. Here are some ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A new exhibit at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum is bringing the McDonald Observatory to the University of Texas campus. UNITED STATES – AUGUST 29: McDonald ...

The first rocky planet ever spotted orbiting a burned out star called a white dwarf offers a glimpse of what may be in store ...

An artist's impression of the laser triangle of LISA, superimposed on gravitational waves emanating from a black hole binary. Illustration: ESA In about 11 years, one of humankind’s most ...

For the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, NASA produced ghostly time-lapse videos of two centuries-old stellar eruptions. Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their ...

The cases of journalist killings recorded in this Observatory are also identified and verified based on confirmatory reports from at least two sources, including international and regional press ...