After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The...
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly...
When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this...
A study published in Science Advances sheds new light on the mysterious origins of free-floating planetary-mass objects (PMOs)—celestial bodies with...
When you look at your surrounding environment, it might seem like you’re living on a flat plane. After all, this...
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming...
The chance that a football field-sized asteroid capable of destroying a city will strike Earth in 2032 has fallen to...
Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, mapping its 3D structure for the first...
Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form...
Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent’s...
An asteroid that could level a city now has a 3.1-percent chance of striking Earth in 2032, according to NASA...
The “needle in the haystack” discovery of a powerful explosion from a mysterious unknown object outside our galaxy has excited...
