Among the wreckage of the Milky Way — where the violent deaths of stars usually leave chaos and crumpled shells — astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered an unusually perfect spherical object within the Milky Way, puzzling researchers about its origin ...

Dubbed "Teleios" after the Greek word for "perfect," the object is what's known as a supernova remnant (SNR), a glowing cloud ...

An international team of astronomers have detected an invisible, mysterious, nearly perfectly spherical object emitting radio ...

According to a controversial new study the world's oldest star map, known as the Star Manual of Master Shi, was created in ...

Scientists have released the first X-ray images of a mysterious, sphere-shaped object recovered in Colombia, which locals ...

They found that the ancient star chart actually dates to 355 B.C. — 250 years earlier than previously thought — and that it ...

It is notable for being one of the simplest nebulae known — almost perfectly spherical. The nebula contains an inner, brighter region of higher-velocity gas, spanning some 0.2 light-year.

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

A remnant of the Soviet Venus program, Kosmos 482 has stayed aloft in in Earth's orbit for 53 years. But it may make a return ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...