After five years of planning and construction, Parklane Park in Portland’s Centennial Neighborhood officially opened Friday ...

NPR Financial Correspondent Maria Aspan, Host of "Politics Nation" Rev. Al Sharpton, and President of Media Matters for ...

Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

The asteroid, with a diameter of about 950 feet will come close enough to Earth on Friday to warrant astronomers keeping a ...

A failed Soviet-era spacecraft that became trapped in Earth’s orbit by mistake more than 50 years ago is expected to make a ...

Stunning stellar explosions occur every second across the cosmos – some observable, most too distant to ever know, all of ...

A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...

Cosmos (or Kosmos) 482's orbit has slowly brought it closer to our planet since 1972, and now it's on the cusp of plummeting ...

Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

Scientists have observed an explosion 180 million light years away that is unlike anything seen before. Rather than forming a typical spherical shape, the blast was flat — so flat that it has become ...

A Cape Cod astronomer is tracking T Coronae Borealis, a star system that's expected to go nova soon. Here’s what you need to know about this event.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...