Is it the little spaceship that could? A private US lunar lander that’s been hemorrhaging fuel since an onboard explosion...
In a system with two known planets, astronomers spotted something new: A small object transiting across the sun-sized star. This...
A team of astronomers including those from the University of Tokyo have created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures...
At the center of most large galaxies lives a supermassive black hole (SMBH). The Milky Way has Sagittarius A*, a...
Astronomers have completed the largest and most detailed study of what triggers stars to form in the universe’s biggest galaxies,...
Fleeting blasts of energy from space, known as fast radio bursts (FRBs), are a cosmic enigma. A Canadian-led international team...
Researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have discovered X-ray activity that sheds light on the evolution...
Europa, one of Jupiter’s many moons, may be capable of supporting life because its icy surface likely obscures a deep,...
Astronomers analyzing 13 years of data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found an unexpected and as yet unexplained...
Scientists have found a star unlike any other one recorded—which may change our understanding of how stars die. This unusual...
Beta Pictoris, a young planetary system located just 63 light-years away, continues to intrigue scientists even after decades of in-depth...
Once upon a cosmic time, scientists assumed that stars apply an eternal magnetic brake, causing an endless slowdown of their...
