Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan ...

For 19-year-old Gael Gomez, the Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Astronomers has changed his life for the better. But soon, he may be ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

In an ambitious bid to extend daylight beyond the sunset, a California-based startup, Reflect Orbital, is planning to deploy ...

A decade-long investigation into puzzling neutrino behavior has now ruled out one of the most widely discussed explanations: the sterile neutrino.

Space weather is notoriously hard to predict, but one forecast map shows parts of Indiana might see the northern lights low on the horizon Dec. 8.

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...