If, for some reason, we as a society executed villains by firing them into the Sun, this is how an astronomers says we would ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...

A new study with the incredibly exciting title of "Overdispersed Radio Source Counts and Excess Radio Dipole Detection" has ...

NASA has announced the discovery of a peculiar celestial object named CWISE J1249, which challenges existing classifications ...

For the first time ever, astronomers have spotted a powerful coronal flare (cme) from a star other than the Sun.

An international team of scientists confirmed the first record of a plasma ejection from a red dwarf star outside the solar ...

The Sun, our nearest celestial neighbor, is undeniably a star, not a planet, as centuries of astronomical observations have ...

Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

The Enceladus Orbilander is a planned mission that in the 2030s should reach Saturn's sixth-largest moon in a bid to find ...

Astronomers have recently discovered compelling evidence suggesting that ageing stars, similar to our Sun, consume nearby planets during their late evolutionary stages. This dramatic process, which ...

Recent observations of a dying star have offered a chilling glimpse into the cataclysmic fate that awaits Earth billions of ...