Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from Earth near the ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our galaxy.

If you thought the Mushroom Kingdom was big before, wait until it starts floating through space. Nintendo just gave fans a fresh look at its next animated adventure, and ...

Gold and platinum are found in space, created when two stars collide. Astrophysicists can even trace this process further back, to the merger of galaxies.

Observations show the universe appears flat, yet its true size and global shape beyond the observable horizon may remain forever unknown.

A dying star’s final breath creates a haunting, brain-shaped cosmic silhouette.

Astronomers have created the largest and most detailed 3D map yet of a glowing signal from the early universe, revealing hidden galaxies and gas from 9-11 billion years ago. By analyzing faint ...

Physicists have long struggled to unite quantum mechanics—the theory governing tiny particles—with Einstein’s theory of ...

A new study shows that stars with low magnetic activity are likely to support exoplanetary systems, making the hunt for these celestial objects less random.

Greetings stargazers. Occasionally, the calendar aligns so that I get to complain about daylight saving time in this column on the same weekend it goes into effect. I need to take the chance to do ...