A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that astronomers initially struggled to explain.

Using the world's most advanced radio telescopes, astronomers have discovered a spinning dead star so rare, strange and ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

The astronomers called them 'odd radio circles', or ORCs for short. Only a handful are currently known, but now a new ORC has been discovered that breaks all the rules. You may like ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

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Years ago, astronomy professors started noticing something that troubled them: Many of their students didn't understand climate change and the science supporting it. So a small group of professors ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker. Get the Popular Science daily ...

At the South Pole, there’s a science experiment that makes the Burj Khalifa—the world’s tallest building—look small. It’s called IceCube, and it’s built 2,500 meters down into the ...

Every year in mid-July, downtown State College and parts of Penn State’s campus come alive with visitors to the Central ...

Astronomers see the astrosphere of a sunlike star for the first time. ... Science News was founded in 1921 as an independent, nonprofit source of accurate information on the latest news of ...

Life on a planet ruled by two suns might be a little complicated. Two sunrises, two sunsets. Twice the radiation field. In a paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, astronomer Joel Kastner and ...