"Understanding how different materials behave as they burn up could help engineers design satellites that fully disintegrate, ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

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Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, WOH G64 is a red supergiant and one of the most luminous, dust-enshrouded stars in its ...

A "crowdsourced" project in which home computer users were enlisted to help analyze radio signals from space is ending after ...

Their new study shows that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinct could have been caused by a large drop in calcium levels in the ocean. The study showed that the ...

The big astronomical event in February is a rare “planetary parade,” according to NASA. You’ll be able to see Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter shortly after sunset on Feb. 28, ...

Known as blue straggler stars, these age-defying celestial objects have mystified astronomers for more than 70 years. "Blue ...

We live in a dark, dark, world. The post Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter appeared ...

AnomalyMatch allows astronomers to process millions of Hubble images at record speed, revealing new galaxies and ...

The month of February gets under way with the full “Snow” Moon visiting the Beehive star cluster.

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...