Space

For the first time, astronomers have seen gas boiling and bubbling on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed […]

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom may be careening into the solar system without being noticed. But

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling Internet access and mobile communications around the globe, they are also posing a threat

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two independent studies found

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s Star, located just six light-years from our solar system, has at least one

Dozens of runaway stars were caught escaping from a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be traced back to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and

This exoplanet’s atmosphere is going full steam ahead. A planet beyond our solar system called GJ 9827d has an atmosphere