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.

The universe is expanding, but the rate of that expansion is proving to be elusive. A new measurement of the universe's expansion rate falls between two ...

Researchers have published findings about a supernova observed using TESS, adding new insights to long-held theories about the elements left behind after a ...

If this starfish is making your mouth water, you're not alone. When a photo of Plinthaster dentatus went viral on Twitter last week, pasta-lovers did a double take ...

While the truth might be out there, technological aliens don't seem to be — at least not yet. New results from the most comprehensive Search for Extraterrestrial ...

If giant planets in other star systems lose their moons, the freed objects could become “ploonets,” and current telescopes may be able to find them.

Scientists have uncovered evidence of moon formation in a solar system for the first time. In the star system PDS 70, approximately 370 light-years away, ...

A new planet-hunting algorithm suggests that at least 9 percent of nearby stars could host planets orbiting out of sight — and the stars' chemistry could help find ...

Starfish don't have butts, but this one sure looks like it does. A visitor to the Aquarium of the Pacific recently snapped a photo of a vermillion sea star that ...

Traditional custodian at the Aboriginal Trust in Lake Tyers Victoria, Wayne Thorpe, is learning as much about the traditional science and stories of the stars as he ...

Its an exciting day in for kids in South Baldwin, as Sea, Sand and Stars Science and Nature Center reopened its doors this morning in Orange Beach.

In July, 1945, Vannevar Bush addressed a report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt arguing that basic research needed to become a priority supported by the ...

What do you call a runaway exomoon with delusions of planethood? You call it a "ploonet," of course. Scientists had previously proposed the endearing term ...

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the base of a mountain in Hawaii on Monday to block the construction of a billion-dollar telescope on its peak. To Native ...

After an interstellar asteroid shot past the sun, scientists realized that there's probably a lot of itinerant rocks out there.

We are standing in the very spot where mankind first kissed the cosmos. Do I have your attention yet? On a summer Saturday night, Mt. Wilson beckons, open to ...

Starfish affected by a disease are making a comeback in California, but recovery is slow on the Central Coast and San Luis Obispo County. Researchers are ...

Gazing into the night sky, it's easy to forget that the closest star to us is the Sun. The Sun is considered typical of middle-aged stars, formed from a collapsed ...

A comprehensive study from a number of organizations, including one funded by Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, found no evidence of extraterrestrial life among ...

A tiny, old star just 12 light-years away might host two temperate, rocky planets, astronomers announced today. If they're confirmed, both of the newly spotted ...

With news that the National Science Foundation (NSF) and international partners will support an upgrade to the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole, the ...

The plot has thickened on a huge discovery from earlier this year that appeared to prove the existence of seemingly 'impossible' long-lived galaxies - ones ...

LAUREL, Md. — One of the top prizes in the March 1970 Fort Worth Regional Science Fair — a slide rule and a free dinner in Dallas — went to a high school ...

Kalepa Baybayan, 'Imiloa Astronomy Center's navigator in residence, discusses traditional navigation with a dozen students participating in the Pacific ...

A new study posits that not all black holes began as stars, as opposed to the previous assumption known to the scientific community.

There's a rebellious, half-dead star in the Little Dipper that's hellbent on escaping our galaxy — and now, astronomers have an idea why. The star, a small white ...

Most teenagers have taken hundreds or even thousands of selfies by the time they graduate from high school. But how many earn a national award for one?

Fleeting differences in gene expression between individuals that occur at different points in time during cell development may have consequences on the ...

Zachary Eli stars in the DC superhero comedy “Shazam!,” soaring onto DVD and Blu-ray for purchase this week. Check out capsule reviews of 20 other recent ...

Our journey to the moon took us a long way from Earth, but it was always tangled up with power politics here on the ground.

Netflix continues its commitment to sci-fi with a new series starring Katee Sackhoff.

New simulations lend some credence to an alternative model of dark energy.

Here are some specifics about the Department of Defense Education Activity's plan to tweak staffing standards, consolidate classes with low attendance and ...

NASA's longest-running mission will continue on. The Agency has been able to keep Voyager 2, the satellite launched in 1977, running by using its trajectory ...

Don Lincoln was a 5-year-old when Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon 50 years ago. It inspired a life-long fascination with science and a desire to see ...

Fifty years after the first Moon landing, some people still don't believe that it actually happened. Here's how we know that it did.

Theoretically, LISA will be sensitive to gravitational waves from white dwarf binaries in our galaxy. HowStuffWorks looks at the new LISA technology.

China steps up the campaign to reform its capital markets with the launch of the STAR Market and Sha.

Breakthrough Listen project found no evidence of alien civilisations on 1327 stars.

Neutron star innards are not your mom's lasagna.

Here are the events you need to know about this weekend in Pittsburgh: July 19-21.

NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope has snapped this incredible bouquet of stars and stellar gas in a spiral galaxy 70 million light-years away from Earth.

You've heard of moonmoons - that's what scientists want to call the satellite of a moon. But are you ready for ploonets? You'd better be, because we're here to ...

Identify constellations, deep-sky objects, and more with our guide to the heavens.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch took this incredible picture of star trails and lights on Earth from the International Space Station (ISS).

At Oak Ridge National Laboratory in eastern Tennessee, physicist Leah Broussard is trying to open a portal to a parallel universe. She calls it an “oscillation” that ...

Is our world an elaborate illusion? Some believers of the simulation hypothesis say our universe may have been created by more technologically advanced ...

Whether the moon was a timekeeper for early humans, as first argued during the Apollo missions, is still up for debate.

Ann Druyan, creative director on the Voyager golden discs, reflects on the two spacecraft's epic journeys—and on Carl Sagan, the love of her life.

Dark matter: sounds like a great name for a rock band, or maybe a sci-fi TV series. Of course, it's both. It's also one of the most intensely studied topics in the ...

The next full Moon will be on Tuesday afternoon, July 16, 2019, at 5:38 PM EDT. The Moon will appear full for about three days around this time, from Monday ...

The nature of our quantum Universe is puzzling, counterintuitive, and testable. The results don't lie.

It might arguably be considered barking, but scientists claim to have taught seals to 'sing' popular tunes, such as the Star Wars melody.

KC Taco Fest: $2 tacos, cerveza, margarita, tequila and live music, competition among participating food vendor to determine the best tacos, 3 to 10 p.m., ...

The SETI scans have analysed more than 1,300 alien stars for artificial signals, radio waves and proof of advanced life in space. Altogether, the data dump ...

It can't be easy stumping MIT astronomers, but star EPIC 249706694 sure managed to. Models ruled out all their theories on why it's erratically dimming.

Saturn is at opposition and its rings are particularly bright this month.

New York's top arts institutions—including Carnegie Hall, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art—are commemorating the ...

YOU MIGHT not know much about Noah Answerth. At least not yet. He's a first-year player for the Brisbane Lions who has managed 11 games in his debut ...

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide the launch vehicle for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which – it is hoped – will allow ...

Shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Game of Thrones" have been Emmy frontrunners for a while — but their nominations seem a little uninspired.

South Australia's most outstanding scientists and STEM professionals have been identified as finalists in the prestigious South Australian Science...

An athletic mediocrity by most Major League measures, Trevor Bauer became a $13 million-a-year All-Star pitcher thanks to his singular talent: a relentless, ...

These planets are just a little bigger than Earth, located 12.5 light years away and water can exist in its liquid form.

They are the Australian heroes of the 1969 moon landing.

NEW DELHI — It was 10 a.m. on a muggy Delhi day, and it was time for space class. Like so many other middle schoolers, Veronica Sodhi, a 12-year-old with ...

Sue Finley began work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the US prepared to launch its first satellite into orbit in 1958, racing to match the Soviet Union, which ...

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.

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 ...

One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy. Since then, that cluster has whipped four long circles around the edge of the Milky Way. In that time ...

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 ...

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

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.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...

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

Two astronomers think they've pinpointed the ancient stellar collision that gave our solar system its cache of precious gold and platinum — some of it, anyway.

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

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

Brown dwarfs fill the 'gap' between stars and the much smaller planets. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers may now be able to ...

A group of 12 red giants seem to be passing gas way faster than they should be. New research suggests it's all an illusion — and secret binary stars are to ...

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 ...

Last month, SpaceX successfully launched 60 500-pound satellites into space. Soon amateur skywatchers started sharing images of those satellites in night ...

There are spinning stars in space. Some of them collapse into black holes. Along the way, they may generate a lot of heavy elements — including gold.

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.

When a pair of ultradense cores of dead stars smashed into one another, the collision shot a bright jet of charged subatomic particles through space.

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

Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialized on cosmic gamma rays, scientists have measured the smallest apparent size of a star on the night sky to ...

For the first time scientists have been able to prove a decades old theory on stars thanks to a revolutionary high-speed camera.

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 ...

In a process not unlike human aging, most stars entering the final chapter of their lives tend to shrink, shrivel and slowly turn white. Astronomers call these cold, ...

Date: April 15, 2019; Source: University of Delaware; Summary: We gaze up at them, we wish upon them, we even sing about swinging on them. But the one ...

Is there another Universe out there? The Universe we know and inhabit, the one that began at the start of the hot Big Bang, might not be the only one out there.

The explosions that blew apart the universe's first stars are shrouded in mystery. These energetic blasts are inherently difficult to recreate in computer ...

Since the dawn of humanity, people have looked to the sky and marveled at the glittering lights above. With the advent of modern telescopes, scientists came to ...

Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a ...

Researchers discovered a dust grain forged in a stellar explosion before our solar system was born. Atom-level analysis of the specimen reveals new insights ...

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 ...

NASA's new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is designed to ferret out habitable exoplanets, but with hundreds of thousands of sunlike and smaller ...

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