The technology company that was at the center of a scandal last week released a tongue-in-cheek response. It landed.

Complex organic molecules (COM) are those that contain six or more atoms, one or more of which must be carbon. Amino acids ...

Betelgeuse needs no introduction. Besides having its name borrowed by the ghost with the most, this 10-million-year-old red ...

However, these “dormant” singularities will occasionally come into contact with stars and other objects as they move around the galaxy. If they come too close, these objects are gobbled up by the ...

In 2015, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and colleagues announced the discovery of unusual light fluctuations coming from a star ...

Today in the history of astronomy, a Prussian photographer captures totality.

Astronomers may have captured the rare moment of a planet forming around a young star, HD 135344B, 440 light-years away. Using the powerful ERIS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, they spotted ...

For Harold Kozak, one of life’s greatest pleasures is the opportunity to educate the public about the stars and the vast ...

What do you get when you stare at the same dead star for more than 20 years? Insight into the weirdest physics in the ...

This newborn planetary system is emerging around the young star HOPS-315, which sits some 1,300 light years away from Earth. Around such young stars, astronomers often see discs of gas and dust known ...

As scientists wait for the asteroid to reappear, its revised trajectory is now drawing attention to another possible target: ...

Radio astronomers like a bit of peace and quiet, so they're sending an historic first radio telescope to the Moon. To block ...