The origins of aptly named supermassive black holes—which can weigh in at more than a million times the mass of...
Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can’t survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes....
New evidence suggests that billions of years ago, a star may have passed very close to our solar system. As...
Astronomers exploring the faraway universe with the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s most powerful telescope, have found a class of...
If this galaxy is typical, then the study, published today in Nature Astronomy, indicates that our galaxy is already interacting...
A better understanding of the inner workings of neutron stars will lead to a greater knowledge of the dynamics that...
Jupiter’s striking appearance comes from its stormy atmosphere. Swirling clouds surround the gas giant, and their distribution reflects the planet’s...
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The...
A small asteroid discovered on Wednesday harmlessly burned up in Earth’s atmosphere the same day, NASA said. The asteroid—about 3...
It’s 7 billion years ago, and the universe’s heyday of star formation is beginning to slow. What might our Milky...
Boeing will attempt to return its problem-plagued capsule from the International Space Station later this week—with empty seats. NASA said...
Exoplanets form in protoplanetary disks, a collection of space dust and gas orbiting a star. The leading theory of planetary...
