If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Two asteroid-sized objects orbiting a famous star have collided, Hubble Space Telescope images suggest. The collision provides a rare look at a young star at a time when planets have already formed ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space rocks within a nearby planetary system. When astronomers initially spotted a ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope observed the debris belt and dust clouds around the star Fomalhaut, which was blotted out to allow the fainter features around it to be seen. Credit: NASA / ESA / Paul Kalas ...

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 ...

When the solar system began to form, everything was chaos. A slew of rocky material was smashing together in a maelstrom that would eventually become the baby protoplanets, comets and asteroids that ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak reportedly started their first business, illegally selling “blue boxes” that allowed users to make free, long-distance telephone calls. In a documentary 'Silicon Valley: A ...

Most computer problems are easily traced to either hardware or software errors. However, it isn't always obvious why your ...

Astronomers have identified an unusual cosmic object that appears to be a galaxy in name only, composed almost entirely of dark matter and lacking the stars that typically define such systems.