Astronomers can’t touch the stars they study, but astrophysicist Nia Imara is using 3-dimensional models that fit in the palm...
What will our Sun look like after it dies? Scientists have made predictions about what the end will look like...
The debris from a colossal cosmic explosion in a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away is no ordinary supernova....
There are eight known planets in the Solar System (ever since Pluto was booted from the club), but for a...
Saturn – or Kronos – may be the one with a horrifying reputation for filial cannibalism in mythology, but when it...
Roughly a century ago, scientists began to realize that some of the radiation we detect in Earth’s atmosphere is not...
Brown dwarfs are astronomical objects with masses between those of planets and stars. The question of where exactly the limits...
When we search for life out there in the galaxy, we base our efforts on what we know. So far,...
After taking new radio observations, astronomers have ruled out a leading explanation for the cyclic nature of a particularly curious...
A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers,...
A newly discovered asteroid has the second-shortest orbit that we know in the entire Solar System, pipped only by Mercury....
A powerful radio telescope staring at a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way has detected thousands of hitherto unknown radio...
