From Dean Devlin, the creative mind behind Independence Day and Stargate, comes a new sci-fi adventure set in deep space. The Ark takes place 100 years in the future, as the crew of the Ark One sets ...

It's equivalent to the glow of 10 fireflies spread across the entire night sky. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Did someone leave ...

Using data from the eROSITA All-Sky Survey, astronomers have created a 3D map of the low-density bubble of X-ray-emitting, million-degree hot gas that surrounds the solar system. The investigation has ...

Someone forgot to turn the lights out. Astronomers have detected a residual “ghostly glow,” tainting the near pitch blackness of the sky, after painstakingly analyzing 200,000 images captured by the ...

Scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to identify the presence of an unexplained glow amid the blackness of space. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live ...

A group of astronomers sorted through 200,000 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in order to look for any residual background glow in the sky. The highly-ambitious project called SKYSURF, found ...

Researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope have made a strange discovery: a “ghostly light” surrounding our solar system. When light from stars, planets, and even the glow of starlight ...

As detailed in a paper to be published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the international team of researchers spotted the crescent-shaped gas cloud, dubbed Eos, on the edge of the Local Bubble, an ...

The New Horizons spacecraft has spotted an ultraviolet glow that seems to emanate from near the edge of the solar system. That glow may come from a long-sought wall of hydrogen that represents where ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now reaching its closest point to the sun, or perihelion, on Wednesday, according to NASA. At just 130 million miles from our star, the comet is expected to flare in ...