Astronomers have detected an Earth-size planet candidate orbiting a nearby star once a year, making it a promising target for ...

NASA has spent the best part of 50 years studying the deepest regions of space and has recent found an ancient star 120 light years away blowing wind bubbles.

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

This all-inclusive refractor is best for observing planets and the moon, but still able to give skywatchers some glimpses of deep-sky objects.

A well known flat Earth figure is back with another attempt at proof. This time, the focus is on why Polaris is not visible from Australia and how the River Nile supposedly disproves a globe Earth.

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments ...

WOH G64 has always been an oddball. It sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and it ranks among the most extreme red supergiants known.

AI is likely to profoundly alter our society. The critical question is how societies will respond to those changes. At the ...

A razor-thin spike of radio light, tuned to a wavelength of about 18 centimeters, just traveled more than 8 billion light-years and still arrived loud enough to stand out in MeerKAT’s data. That ...

Electron movement and structures described in quantum physics allow researchers to better understand how and why materials like superconductors behave ...

Calls Musk’s orbital plans “speculative” despite Bezos touting orbiting compute Amazon wants US regulators to reject a SpaceX ...