The stellar companion may help explain why the brightness of Betelgeuse, the red supergiant, is open to so much variation.

Here’s what’s launching from July 28 to August 3: a cutting‑edge Earth‑observation mission joins a crewed flight to the ...

The Crew‑11 mission is targeting liftoff at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will send four astronauts to the space station aboard a SpaceX Crew ...

In an ambitious leap forward for radio astronomy, the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment (LuSEE-Night) is preparing to ...

The fifth planet, named L 98-59 f, is located in the star’s habitable zone, where conditions could allow liquid water to exist.

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 ...

If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you have your eyes fixed on the skies this evening. Tonight (July 28) is the best ...

The US West Coast is the world's worst mega-drying region. The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two ...

Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

Back in 1949, before he emerged as the godfather of the American space program, he spilled his fantasies onto the page, in a ...

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

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 ...