A new sky survey project has released its first round of incredible data, results, and images, including this amazing…
A new analysis of pulsing stars has revealed the Milky Way’s twisted shape.
Astronomers this week announced that they’d attempted to measure all of the starlight in the universe.
A tiny star located about 1,590 light-years from Earth could be as old as 13.53 billion years, making it one of the…
When some stars get old, they eject gas and dust, forming a cloud of electrically charged material in space called a…
August 2018 rolled in with a bang, literally, as explosions rocked Caracas, Venezuela on Saturday during a speech by…
Next week, NASA is scheduled to send human technology closer to a star than ever before. What they learn could change…
Professional astronomers are busy people. Some are mapping distant galaxies, others are listening for aliens, and more…
At this point, we’ve spotted several thousand exoplanets—there’s nothing super exciting anymore about finding a distant…
For years, astronomers have struggled to understand the source of anomalous microwave emissions coming from various…
On the way to its final orbit around Earth, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has…
Scientists have spotted 13-billion-year-old oxygen in a distant galaxy—a signal of stars forming during the universe’s…
Space is a chaotic, ever-changing place. But that’s not limited to exploding stars and colliding black holes. Even our…
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft team has dropped its long-awaited trove of data about 1.7 billion stars.…
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve seen the Little Dipper—the 2003 blackout, a family trip to the Grand…
Around the same time our ancestors left Africa, a dim red dwarf star came to within 0.8 light-years of our Sun, marking…
It would be silly to think that scientists and astronomers have spotted all of the different kinds of weird things that…
Officially on the bucket list: Rafting down the Grand Canyon and camping out on its rocky banks under a night sky…
The fine folks at NASA are sending a spacecraft to the Sun, and they want to send a little piece of you along with it.…
Neutron stars aren’t the twinkle-twinkle kind you typically see in the night sky. They’re stellar corpses, and…
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