A new study by University of Maryland astronomers shows that comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), the largest comet ever discovered, was active...
Curtin University researchers have helped unravel the enduring mystery of the origins of the Earth’s water, finding the Sun to...
An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion...
A white dwarf star that completes a full rotation once every 25 seconds is the fastest spinning confirmed white dwarf,...
A Russian cargo craft carrying a new docking module successfully hooked up with the International Space Station Friday after a...
Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations....
Seismic data collected in Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars, suggest the presence of a shallow sedimentary...
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up more than 4,000 far-flung worlds, orbiting stars thousands of...
In the strange, dark world of the ocean floor, underwater fissures, called hydrothermal vents, host complex communities of life. These...
Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to...
Data from ESA’s Gaia mission is re-writing the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way. What had traditionally been thought...
An artistic interpretation of Curiosity’s view high up on a Martian mountain was created by mission team members who were...
