Astronomers have clocked a pulsar careening through space at a mind-boggling 2.5 million mph (4 million km/h). It seems to have been kicked to such high ...

Astronomers looked into the Milky Way's bulge and found some of the oldest known stars in the universe.

Many stars sedately tread the measure of the galaxies they inhabit, slowly orbiting the galactic core. Not a star called PSR J0002+6216, though.

It was a Friday of questions and answers at the L.A. Convention Center, as scores of students and parents descended downtown for the Clippers SciFest SoCal.

After decades of research, an analysis of light has finally identified the age of an ancient star cluster in the Milky Way. It's called HP 1, and it's roughly 12.8 billion ...

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.

WASHINGTON — A Virginia teen found what could be the hiding places of hundreds of new planets and won the $250,000 top prize Tuesday night in the 2019 ...

WHAT: The opening of the new exhibition in Cushing Memorial Library and Archives: A diverse sci-fi exhibit titled: “The Stars Are Ours”: Infinite Diversities in ...

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 ...

After more than a decade of patiently waiting and watching, astronomers have seen signs that one of the rarest stars known to science is waking up from its ...

The number of planets detected around other stars - or exoplanets - is set to hit the 4000 mark.

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 ...

Apple announced its Apple TV Plus streaming *service* today, along with a handful of original TV shows that are in the works — but it left out just about every key ...

A new study finds a particular class of stars called K stars, which are dimmer than the Sun but brighter than the faintest stars, may be particularly promising ...

Researchers have detected a radio signal from abundant interstellar dust in MACS0416_Y1, a galaxy 13.2 billion light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.

The endangered Santa Ana woolly star depends on catastrophic floods. Thanks to a huge dam, natural floods are now nonexistent in its home turf. Researchers ...

This pulsar is tearing away from the site of its supernova mindbendingly fast.

The possibility for alien life increases when two stars are pushed together by a third, according to new research announced Tuesday.

Discovering a new star is always a delight in astronomy. So you can probably imagine the excitement over discovering a giant stream of stars winding through ...

Are we alone? If advanced alien civilizations are out there, why haven't we heard from them? Scientists call this Fermi's Paradox - aka The Great Silence - and ...

Red giants are old stars that eject gaseous material and solid particles through a stellar wind. Some red giants appear to lose an exceptionally large amount of ...

Date: March 7, 2019; Source: Royal Astronomical Society; Summary: Planetary systems can be harsh environments in their early history. Now astronomers find ...

New research explains a strange feature of Jupiter's nearby asteroids by suggesting the planet started out life much farther from home.

A weird-looking white dwarf found by volunteers seems to be sporting dusty rings.

Two towering “chimneys” glowing with X-rays extend from the center of the Milky Way. The newly discovered structures could help explain the source of two ...

Students able to take Algoma University courses online, earn degrees in certain programs with help from eCampus Ontario.

In Chaco Canyon, ancient Native American sites still reflect the wonder of the night sky.

A category of small, orange stars may be the best place to look for extra-terrestrial life. So called K-type stars, which are smaller and cooler than the Sun, could ...

Researchers have found that some stars exploding as supernovae may release part of their hydrogen layers to their companion stars before the explosion.

In an exclusive clip from the show, set to air on Monday, biomedical science graduate Verity, 24, is giving Jamie and Alex a science lesson before the shocking ...

"The lines began to blur between reality and fiction around the mid-nineties.” Not an uncommon feeling for quite a few veteran ravers – but for Jeff Mills it means ...

Stars over eight times more massive than the sun end their lives in supernovae explosions. The composition of the star influences what happens during the ...

One of the most foundational science-fiction stories is coming to life on Apple TV+. 'Foundation,' a new series based on the novels by Isaac Asimov, is getting the ...

March 25, 2019. By Tim Stephens. Share this story:TwitterFacebookGoogle+LinkedInReddit. lick-domes-450.jpg Sunset over Lick Observatory with open domes.

Discoveries deep beneath Earth's surface drive planetary exploration, and discoveries on other planets inform our understanding of the world beneath our feet.

Outstanding contributions to science have been recognised by the Australian Academy of Science today with 20 of Australia's leading scientists and future ...

Using high-resolution adaptive optics imaging from the Gemini Observatory, astronomers have uncovered one of the oldest star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy.

It took a while, but finally—and with the carefully curated help of Oprah, Big Bird and Goldman Sachs—Apple has at last unveiled a new streaming TV *service*, ...

Uniindia: New Delhi, Feb 28 (UNI) Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on National Science Day stated that an amount of Rs 250 cr has ...

Two familiar Scottish faces will star in the new TV programme, coming soon from the BBC.

Every fringe theorist needs an amplifier—used to be the penny press; today it's the Web.

For the real black holes that exist or get created in our Universe, we can observe the radiation emitted by their surrounding matter, and the gravitational waves ...

The most distant known object in our solar system was found, Jupiter showed off its artistic side, and a sad accident for a 27000-year-old giant ground sloth ...

The HRD Ministry launched a Rs 250 crore project called STARS to fund around 500 science projects which will be selected on the basis of competitions.

The visible light portion of the spectrum is tiny compared to the whole thing. Here's what we're missing.

Vinny Chhibber has joined Animal Kingdom in a recurring role, and Marquise C. Brown has booked Strange Angel.

Dubai Crown Prince honours finalists at Global Education and Skills Forum.

THE University of Namibia, in collaboration with The Netherland's Radboud University, are working on a project to mount a 15-metre telescope at the summit of ...

New science is ending the longstanding perception that Venus is a dead planet.

The scientists, from Japan, Sweden & US, are observing a molecular cloud that's on its way to forming a binary star system — the astronomical equivalent of ...

The Institute of Physics is launching a bursary scheme to help female and black students to become physics researchers. The scheme is funded by one of the ...

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

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

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 ...

Scientists hunting for signs of alien life shouldn't be so quick to dismiss carbon monoxide (CO), a new study suggests. The substance is highly poisonous to ...

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.

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 ...

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.

At first, it looks like a planet: dark, snow-speckled and slashed down the center by a deep red scar. But zoom in a little closer, and you realize you're looking at ...

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 ...

Apple is getting ready to launch a TV and movie streaming *service*, and that means putting together an expansive catalog of original *content*. The company is ...

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

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, ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Warming seas are exacerbating sea star wasting disease and imperiling the sunflower star.

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 ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

As a grad student, Priya Natarajan theorized that winds emanate from black holes, affecting nearby stars. Now, new evidence hints that she was right.

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.

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

When were most of the universe's stars born? Scientists have long known that the answer is “long ago.” But a new study that scrutinizes the radiation from ...

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

After combining several imaging sources, including hard X-rays and radiowaves, a team now speculates that the telescopes captured the exact moment a star ...

Ocean warming and an infectious wasting disease has devastated populations of large sunflower sea stars once abundant along the West Coast of North ...

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.

Researchers from Russian Academy of Sciences developed a new method for star-shaped nanoparticles synthesis based on laser irradiation. A wide range of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...