"We found something never seen before and, more importantly, entirely unexpected," team leader Simone Scaringi of Durham ...

From ancient stargazers to modern-day space scientists, women have shaped our understanding of the cosmos. This crossword ...

Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with a star's surroundings and create a shock wave.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s essential elements through the galaxy may be incomplete. Starlight pushing on gra ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

And the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association holds- free "star parties" for schools and other opportunities for the public to scan the night sky through members' telescopes. Take an orbit around this ...

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