“The most outrageous object that most people have never heard of,” as one scientist calls it, is the subject of our cover story—and, to my mind at least, such ...

This cluster of stars has been visible for a long time, but scientists only just now realized they're part of the same cosmic river.

UC leads colleges and universities in the number of recipients of this year's distinguished annual award.

Astronomers have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and ...

Feature describes the first fully kinetic model of plasma particles showing that fast reconnection can indeed occur in partially ionized plasma.

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, next time you get the opportunity, go outside and look at the night sky. Most of that celestial plain is covered in a star ...

More than 20 species of sea stars—including the sunflower star, a keystone predator with a wide range—have been ravaged by a poorly-understood ailment ...

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AN ASTEROID big enough to obscure parts of the starlit sky will dash past the Earth in the wee morning hours tomorrow, asteroid trackers have revealed.

Christopher Landon follows up his 2017 surprise breakout hit 'Happy Death Day,' in which Theresa “Tree” Gelbman (Jessica Rothe) finds herself in a time loop ...

In November 2016, astronomers watched a young star some 1500 light-years away from Earth belch out an explosion of plasma and radiation that was roughly ...

A new study sheds light on a huge die-off of starfish along the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska.

The IAB SEA+India Programmatic Committee returns in 2019 with its search for the industry's brightest talents behind the technology. Find out how these ...

The option to measure the gravitational waves of two merging neutron stars has offered the chance to answer some of the fundamental questions about the ...

Juna Kollmeier and Sean Raymond kicked off an internet firestorm late last year when they posted a draft of their article about submoons on a preprint server.

Center for Life Detection Science (CLDS) will be based in Mountain View, California and will tackle the question, 'Are we alone?' and NASA claims science may ...

Multihost infectious disease outbreaks have endangered wildlife, causing extinction of frogs and endemic birds, and widespread declines of bats, corals, and ...

A bright-pink kraken with long, lanky tentacles and a head the size of a small child greets visitors to the Academy of Natural Sciences' newest exhibit. Step past ...

A new article describes the use of the Magnetorotational Instability Experiment to confirm an important mechanism involved in star formation.

Cave art suggests that ancient people had a good grasp of the night sky, and drew images of animals to depict constellations.

Sea stars along the Pacific Coast are dying in the largest disease epidemic ever documented in a wild marine species. New research suggests warmer water is ...

The program for the 2019 World Science Festival Brisbane has its sights firmly set on the heavens, with two NASA astronauts to join astrophysicist and event ...

This dazzling region of newly forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was captured by the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument (MUSE) on ...

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high ...

Five of the 18 elite “Jeopardy” players competing in the “Jeopardy All-Star Games” have ties to the Chicago area. The team tournament is scheduled to begin ...

Outside record producer Rick Rubin's Hollywood Hills home, drummer Josh Greenbaum sat in a silver Volvo with his friend and bandmate River Phoenix, the ...

Astronomers spotted gaps in the dusty discs around stars that can only be filled by planets.

The UK and US governments announce a £25m project to improve the sensitivity of the LIGO facilities.

The centre has been exploring the infinite mysteries of the vast cosmic space.

The Wizards return from the All-Star break with 24 games remaining in the regular season and hills to climb for a playoff berth. What's working in their favor ...

From a great distance, our Milky Way would look like a thin disc of stars that rotates once every few hundred million years around its central region. Hundreds of ...

And if it's successful, the small nation of about 9 million will only be the fourth to successfully deliver a robotic lander to the lunar surface — after the ...

A new map of the night sky published Tuesday charts hundreds of thousands of previously unknown galaxies discovered using a telescope that can detect light ...

The iconic doll Barbie will look to the heavens as an astrophysicist and astronaut this year in an effort by toy-maker Mattel to inspire young girls into STEM fields.

Lucasfilm director J.J. Abrams announces that Star Wars: Episode IX has completed shooting, with a photo of Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, and Oscar Isaac in ...

NASA will launch a new space telescope, SPHEREx, in 2023, that could provide a glimpse of the first moments in the history of the universe.

The SPHEREX mission will create multiple surveys of the near-infrared sky that will reveal the origins of life and perhaps the universe itself.

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Two stars are locked in a fight to the death a mere 650 light-years from Earth. A new camera system on the Very Large Telescope zoomed in on the action.

From artificial intelligence to infectious diseases, top researchers in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are making big impacts on the ...

Who will take home this year's Ig Nobels, the world's most unusual science prizes?

A monthlong visit to observatories in Chile, Hawaii and Los Angeles revealed spellbinding visions of the heavens.

Have you ever seen a shooting star? No, not a micrometeorite flaring to a crisp in Earth's atmosphere — an actual star, careening out of its orbit at millions of ...

Mysterious axion stars, if they exist, could form in as short a period as 10 million years, new computer simulations suggest.

A star system in our galaxy could give us a ringside seat for one of the brightest lightshows in the universe. And, with luck, it won't wipe out all life on our planet.

YouTube helped fund the first ThinkerCon, a gathering of its educational stars and their fans, in Huntsville this weekend.

The first direct evidence of white dwarf stars solidifying into crystals has been discovered by astronomers, and our skies are filled with them.

When you gaze up into the night sky, there are thousands of stars you can see without any help from a telescope. That might sound like a lot. But those stars are ...

How many stars have formed in the Universe, and when did they do so? These fundamental questions are difficult to answer because there are systematic ...

Did an ancient supernova kill the Earth's biggest sharks? A new astrobiology study says such a theory may not be as unlikely as it sounds.

Britton Middle School eighth grader Ben Hayes was looking for a good reason to get dirty and play down by the creek. So when it was time to decide on his ...

Some sea stars can coordinate their thousands of “feet” to leap instead of crawl.

A burst of light from far away may have been an odd type of exploding star or a white dwarf being eaten by a black hole.

An international team of scientists has discovered a new, massive star system -- one that also challenges existing theories of how large stars eventually die.

Would you sacrifice one part of life for another? That's just what women like Henrietta Leavitt did at the dawn of the 20th century. And by doing so, made history.

Simulations suggest that the theoretical substance known as nuclear pasta is 10 billion times as strong as steel.

Scientists have spotted a faint, fast supernova for the first time, possibly explaining how pairs of dense stellar corpses called neutron stars form.

The Sun rotates faster at its equator than at its poles. This process is known as differential rotation and is seen in the motion of sunspots. Helioseismology has ...

The evidence for aliens around one of the weirdest stars in our galaxy — Boyajian's star — is not looking promising. The star's unusual dimming events have ...

Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe's oldest stars, made almost entirely of materials spewed from the Big Bang.

The irregular flickering of star VVV-WIT-07 is reminiscent of Tabby's star, which brought speculation of alien megastructures.

Physicists haven't given up on the dream of zipping around the universe. Now they've come up with a far-out idea for making it happen.

The way they move belies the true ages of the almost 3000 stars populating one of the richest star clusters known. Astronomers recently discovered the stars all ...

As pressure mounts to find ways to eliminate single-use plastic, two innovative students may have found one answer after developing a way of turning food ...

A thick sphere of icy debris known as the Oort cloud shrouds the solar system. Other star systems may harbor similar icy reservoirs, and those clouds may be ...

Stars tell stories, guide explorers, and help scientists talk about the galaxy.

Nestled in the constellation Puppis is the Skull and Crossbones Nebula, and it will haunt your dreams, matey.

They're called shooting stars. In fact, they're only bits of space rock burning up in Earth's atmosphere. This month's Geminid (JEM-in-id) meteor shower will ...

Flares from the youngest red dwarfs surveyed are 100 to 1000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. This younger age is when terrestrial planets ...

Physicists have created the world's first laser-cooled neutral plasma. The research opens a frontier where experimental atomic and plasma physicists can coax ...

Scientists were able to see the abundance of star-forming gas and dust in a giant galaxy from when the universe was less than 2 billion years old.

For the first time, astronomers may have watched a massive stellar explosion give rise in real time to a superdense dead star called a neutron star.

As dinosaurs stomped across ancient Earth more than 200 million years ago, a massive star was entering its death throes. The resulting cosmic explosion was ...

Date: January 4, 2019; Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Summary: Researchers design CubeSats with lasers to provide steady reference light for ...

Devaki Raj is just one example of the extraordinary members of this year's 30 Under 30 In Science list, all of whom are doing important and groundbreaking ...

Five hundred scientists from around the globe were assessed by Scientific American and when the top names surfaced, Boston University's Sahar Sharifzadeh ...

When the U.S. football field–size, cigar-shaped object 'Oumuamua entered our solar system last year, it didn't just give us our first glimpse of an interstellar piece ...

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According to models of stellar evolution, certain types of stars need longer than the universe has existed to form.

Six million stars in the Milky Way's disc are not behaving as they should be.

For women in engineering, getting ahead sometimes means trying to be “one of the guys.” That's why Margarita Paz Castro says she enjoyed attending Rising ...

Astronomers have discovered signs of a frozen exoplanet orbiting the closest single star to our solar system.

A massive star is ejecting material at two different speeds as it spins rapidly.

A team of astronomers using the latest set of data from ESA's Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way were surprised to find ...

A warm, gaseous planet about three times the diameter of Earth circles an orange dwarf star about 53 light-years away, astronomers reported today at the ...

Sound waves help reveal the shape of interstellar clouds.

A few months ago, one of my fellow graduate students was offered an incredible career-building opportunity. His efforts on a student-led campaign to increase ...

Leon Lederman, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist and passionate advocate for science education who coined the term “the God particle,” died this week at age ...

The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets ...

Alien civilizations could use Dyson spheres to draw energy from distant stars, and the missing starlight might give them away.

Astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula ...

Growing pains aren't just for awkward teens: Thanks to a chance alignment of galaxies, astronomers have detected a massive loss of gas from an ancient galaxy ...

The NASA webpage devoted to astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar says he “was known to the world as Chandra. The word chandra means 'moon' or ...

Stars have radiated 4x1084 photons since the universe begun with formation peaking 11bn years ago.

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The sort of small, young, active stars that have become most exciting to astronomers looking for exoplanets may actually push away precisely what could be ...

Astrophysicists just found a planet orbiting the star HD 26965, 16 light years away from Earth. And it's Vulcan.

The universe's first stars may have formed a mere 250 million years after the big bang—hundreds of millions of years earlier than thought, according to a new ...

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