Astronomers have discovered that the sun had a close encounter with two blazingly hot massive stars around 4.4 million years ...

For the first time, scientists have made a clear X-ray detection of chlorine and potassium in the wreckage of a star using ...

“The fact that we can now watch stars explode and immediately see the structure of the material being blasted into space is ...

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"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet ...

The world of astronomy and everything that surrounds it continues to give us secrets that until now seemed unthinkable. In ...

Astronomers have obtained unprecedented images of two star explosions, revealing complex ejection processes and delayed ...

Dark matter is special in that it doesn't emit, absorb or interact with light, so science had to find a more creative way to ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out late in the evening of December 9 and ...

In a recent Hot Take segment, the China Global Television Network recently released an interesting video detailing China's future plans for space. Titled "Earth 2.0? China's plan to find new Earth," ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

Tyson’s ultimate goal was to image large swathes of the sky, measuring how galaxies’ shapes distorted as their light ...