Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

NASA has spent the best part of 50 years studying the deepest regions of space and has recent found an ancient star 120 light years away blowing wind bubbles.

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

Imagine you're going down a long waterslide. You've been traveling through it enjoying every moment despite occasional bumps on the way. You know the end will eventually come, but you don't know when, ...

Astronomers, among them Yuxin Lin and his collaborators, have identified methanimine in the L1544 cloud, located 554 light-years away. This molecule, composed of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen, ...

Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX ...

Discover Coral Castle in Florida, a mysterious stone monument built by one man that still puzzles visitors with massive blocks, moving gates, and hidden secrets.

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

AI is likely to profoundly alter our society. The critical question is how societies will respond to those changes. At the ...

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That ...

A team of citizen scientist made a truly shocking discovery when they unexpectedly detected a truly cataclysmic event in the ...