Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Skygazers who look up at the moon tonight may be able to spot Saturn below it. Here's when and how to spot the conjunction.

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.

The Washington-based company just scored a $52.5 million contract to deorbit satellites for the U.S. Space Force, the first ...

A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

A strange, elongated cloud of metal has appeared at the heart of one of the sky’s most familiar dead stars, and it may be the scattered corpse of a world that once orbited there. The giant iron bar ...