A mysterious star whose repeated bouts of darkening might be due to "alien megastructures," according to some researchers' conjectures, may now have more ...

The movie Ad Astra shows a space antenna, a spindly structure reaching up into the stars. We look at what it would take to build something that big.

The neutron star is so massive that it's near the limit of being able to exist at all.

Brad Pitt says his new space movie "Ad Astra" won't have a clear position on whether humanity is alone in the universe.

Astronomers have discovered the most massive example yet of the dead stars known as neutron stars, one almost too massive to exist, a new study finds.

Over a year after videos were released showing the public what appeared to be footage of UFOs captured by Navy pilots who exchanged astonished ...

We're yet to make a conclusive detection of an exomoon. But if such moons are out there, orbiting planets outside the Solar System, one of them could be ...

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New research by astrophysicists reveals how the gas and energy expelled by stars are returned to the universe, and in what forms. It also found that the ...

Lisa Harvey-Smith's new book teaches boys and girls how to stargaze with only the unaided eye, and how to increase night vision a million fold.

A new, hours-long Hubble study of the collision site revealed never-before-seen details of the neutron-star merger.

Professor Katherine Blundell from Oxford is running a program called Global Jet Watch, enabling schools on four continents to run their own telescopes.

The Brad Pitt-helmed space epic "Ad Astra" sets a new standard for science fiction films, a former NASA engineer who served as a technical consultant for the ...

DOHA, Qatar, Sept. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Stars of Science returns for its 11th season on September 13 with a brand-new format, as it continues to provide a...

University of Washington astrobiologist Rory Barnes has created software that simulates multiple aspects of planetary evolution across billions of years, with an ...

A super-Earth about 111 light-years away is “the best candidate for habitability that we know right now,” astronomers say.

A MIT economist's study shows that life sciences change course after star scientists die during their active careers.

Between December 2017 and March 2018, To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences—a foundation headed by Tom Delonge of Blink-182 fame that's dedicated ...

The celestial patterns we see after dark have helped humans to set calendars and navigate for millennia, but could controversial new artworks change our view ...

Astronomers have discovered a bright, young star that is running away from home. Why? What did the star's parents do to deserve this? According to a study ...

The oldest stars in our Galaxy are also the busiest, moving more rapidly than their younger counterparts in and out of the disk of the Milky Way, according to new ...

Scientists have been trying to discover planets around other stars for generations. They finally succeeded in the 1990s, and more than 4,000 have been ...

In the sleepy predawn hours of August 30, a Ukrainian amateur astronomer named Gennady Borisov spotted a strange comet zooming through our solar system.

ROCK CAVE – The Upshur Stars were shining brightly in Rock Cave Tuesday evening as the Upshur County Board of Education and county administrators ...

When two neutron stars collide, it's not like we can just pop up there with a thermometer to measure the intense temperatures being generated at the heart of the ...

HUBBLE Telescope's Deep Field View is the largest-ever observation of the known universe – but just how many stars and galaxies at once did the Hubble ...

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The universe is looking younger every day, it seems. New calculations suggest the universe could be a couple billion years younger than scientists now estimate ...

The life sciences benefit from death -- the death of star researchers. So concludes a recently published paper in American Economic Review. But co-author ...

In a world where the best parking space is the one that minimizes time spent in the lot, physicists compare parking strategies and settle on a prudent approach.

The night sky with the many stars and constellations is beautiful to witness and bringing that experience alive for blind and low vision people is a show at the ...

A galaxy is a group of millions to billions of stars, plus a lot of dust and gas.

John Robert (“Bob”) Schrieffer, one of the leading theoretical physicists of the past century, passed away on 27 July. He was 88. His seminal work with physicists ...

Compared to our brief human lives, we tend to think of events on galactic scales as ones that happen extremely slowly. But that's not always the case.

Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life and death ...

In the Solar System, there are over 6300 known comets. There are millions of asteroids. And of all those objects, only 'Oumuamua - a red, cigar-shaped asteroid ...

Steven Gubser, a Princeton theoretical physicist who did groundbreaking work in trying to unite the two great fields of physics — quantum mechanics and ...

A pulsar 25000 light-years away is wobbling in a weird way. But Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted it more than a century ago.

The Nobel prize-winning physicist Max Planck once remarked that a brilliant new theory requires a sinister ally: the Grim Reaper.

The oldest stars in our Galaxy are also the busiest, moving more rapidly than their younger counterparts in and out of the disk of the Milky Way, according to a ...

DRAMATIC NASA simulation footage shows the moment two stars collide and the violent and colourful aftermath that erupts afterwards.

For the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, it's glow time. Known as Sagittarius A*, the behemoth at the center of the galaxy dazzled astronomers in 2019 with ...

Scientists say Milky Way's Sagittarius A* has been more active in recent months.

BUQAYQ, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry remained wrapped in scaffolding Friday as workers sought to repair the charred innards ...

If you miss watching bad B-movies with sarcastic robots on Netflix, well, we have good news and bad news. Bad news: Netflix's beloved revival of Mystery ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter that travels on a long, egg-shaped path around its star. If this planet were somehow ...

This artist's impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is the first super-Earth exoplanet discovered ...

The Hubble telescope just captured beautiful but sad deaths of two stars in NGC 2371/2 and NGC 5307.

According to a new study, a mysterious star whose repeated bouts of darkening might be due to "alien megastructures," according to researchers' conjectures, ...

Opposite the sun this month, the eighth planet in the solar system is at its most visible, while Mars disappears and its rovers go quiet.

When it comes to making new stars, the party is almost over in the present-day universe. In fact, it's been nearly over for billions of years. Our Milky Way ...

A NEUTRON star on the verge of collapsing into a black hole is the largest star of its kind ever discovered, a team of astronomers have announced.

ASTRONOMERS around the world were left scrambling for answers after an emergency warning was triggered over a black hole, a documentary revealed.

It is among the most spectacular events in the universe: a merger of neutron stars. Astronomers have completed the first laboratory measurements of thermal ...

For 16 years, Spitzer has been revealing the wonders of the cosmos - from our own solar system to galaxies faraway.

The Starz time-traveling drama Outlander has one of the largest fan bases of any show on television, and it's not just because of the mesmerizing storylines ...

After a dismal run since the Disney acquisition closed in March, 20th Century Fox is looking to the stars to help right the ship.

Government set to invest nearly £100 million to back the rising stars of science and innovative small businesses.

On the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, a team of artists and scientists have made a 16.78-carat diamond — valued at more than $2 million — disappear.

NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope snapped this incredible picture of a dying star that confused astronomers who first encountered it.

In normal vision, light falls on the retinas inside the eyes, and is immediately transduced into electrochemical signals before being uploaded to the brain through ...

Hundreds of young Arab innovation hopefuls will present their ideas for sustainable technology solutions to their peers, established innovators and an expert.

First Direct Arena, Leeds Universal: Adventures in Space and Time is a jaw-dropping reminder that human life is both irrelevant and hugely precious.

The planetarium will open its doors to the public on Sept. 18.

The University of Sydney is part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics. Professor Céline Boehm explains how we are hunting down ...

Qatar Foundation's (QF) Stars of Science returns for its 11th season on September 13 with a brand-new format, introducing a host of changes that reflect an ...

Where were you before you were conceived? The question itself has no meaning: there was no "you" to be anywhere at all. Asking questions like "what ...

For the second year in a row, American Airlines has won the five star global airline award from APEX. How are we supposed to make sense of this?

Qatar Foundation's (QF) Stars of Science returns for its 11th season on September 13 with a brand-new format, introducing a host of changes that reflect an ...

Just as menacing Hurricane Dorian is wreaking havoc in the Atlantic Ocean, an incoming solar tempest may trigger colorful displays of northern lights over the ...

Iron from outside the solar system has sprinkled down on Antarctica in recent years. Measurements of half a ton of snow turned up interstellar iron deposited ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Stars may keep some of their youthful vigor as they age. Astronomers have spotted a star in its twilight years that spins much faster than ...

Older stars, like the sun, can still send out massive bursts of energy that can be seen from light-years away.

Astronomers have detected evidence of one of the first stars to emerge after the Big Bang birthed the universe 13.8 billion years ago. They found traces of an ...

Ahead of the Rugby World Cup in Japan, a report from Christian Aid highlights what they term the "climate injustice" endured by Pacific island participants.

STAMFORD — Students collected crabs species from the inlet near Holly Pond at Cove Island Park on Tuesday in Stamford as part of Science Stars, a STEM ...

Like a misshapen potato chip, our home galaxy is warped. A new 3-D map brings the contorted structure of the Milky Way's disk into better view, thanks to ...

In the lead-up to Ad Astra's release, many have called it this year's Interstellar. The two films boast some similarities—a title referencing stars, the prominence of ...

The most comprehensive search for alien signals has yet to find something to write home about.

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Spinning stars that collapse into black holes could help explain the origins of heavy elements such as gold and silver.

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.

There's a point in space that's 50,000 times as bright as our sun — the signature of a massive star. Scientists already knew about it and named it PDS 27.

The universe may be full of binary stars that have been exiled from their home galaxies, thanks to one star's rowdy behavior.

An algorithm dubbed “Netflix for exoplanets” identified more than 350 stars that, based on their chemistry, might have planets orbiting out of sight.

As human ancestors went from swinging through trees to walking on two legs, they may have received a boost from an unlikely source: ancient supernovas.

The irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a hit-and-run accident with a bypassing galaxy. Rather than destroying the galaxy ...

The website for Rising Stars 2019 has permanently moved to: https://publish.illinois.edu/rising-stars/. Please note the participant notification date has changed ...

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A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around ...

Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of stars locked in a dizzying orbit. They're moving so fast and they're so close together that they complete a full circle every ...

There's a binary star system out there in the Milky Way, and it's acting very weird. "AG Draconis," as astronomers call it, is made up of two stars: a relatively cool ...

The Subaru Telescope has captured images of more than 1800 exploding stars in the Universe, some located 8 billion light years from Earth.

Astronomers using the Nobeyama Radio Obeservatory (NRO) 45-m telescope found that high-density gas, the material for stars, accounts for only 3% of the total ...

Some of the twinkling stars that spangle Earth's skies are relics from the earliest beginnings of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered. Formed ...

New research has prompted a rethink of the theory that gaps in planet-forming disks around young stars mark spaces where planets are being created.

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.

A wrinkle in space-time might be the first evidence of a very unique cosmic collision.

Two recent Hubble Space Telescope photographs offer stunning looks at huge numbers of stars.