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 ...

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 ...

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

SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites in a train Thursday (May 24) and you can see them in the night sky now! Here's how to find out where and when to look.

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.

A very big asteroid with its own little moon is going to zip past Earth tonight (May 25) — close enough that, with some preparation and a decent telescope, ...

HUNTINGTON - Madison Smith's love of science was developed through numerous hands-on field trips she took while in school in Charleston."Especially with ...

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See what 'Alien' stars Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright and more have been doing since Ridley Scott's iconic sci-fi horror movie ...

We are made of star stuff, as Carl Sagan told us. The first stars ignited billions of years ago, out of the cold, primordial gas in the dark universe. The stars blazed ...

When astronomers peer up at the heavens, they aren't just looking for objects we already know to exist. They also hunt for evidence of physical phenomena we ...

Half of naturally occurring plutonium on Earth from single neutron star merger.

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

For Bethany Fetsko, leaving high school behind will be bittersweet, but she's ready for the next phase of her life.

Sometimes planets turn up where you least expect - such as in data from the Kepler space-hunting telescope that had already been analysed.

Ex-WWE star Ashley Massaro was found dead in her Smithtown home.

Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very rapidly yet highly 'inefficiently'. Most of the gas is dispersed ...

Our deepfake problem is about to get worse: Samsung engineers have now developed realistic talking heads that can be generated from a single image, so AI ...

For many years a hidden planet was thought to exist between Mercury and the Sun. Consigned to history by the calculations of Albert Einstein and the ...

Two teams of astronomers voyaged to Africa and Brazil to observe the most famous eclipse in science.

He was 7 or 8 years old when they came the first time. The clowns emerged from the bushes while he was outside playing ball. Except, they weren't really ...

When new cosmic ripples are detected, astronomers leap into action to try to locate their source.

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 ...

Astronomers map the substance aluminum monoxide (AlO) in a cloud around a distant young star -- Origin Source I. The finding clarifies some important details ...

A new picture book tells the story of Venetia Burney, the 11-year-old girl who named Pluto.

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 ...

One of the first books I ever fell in love with was "A Wrinkle In Time" by Madeleine L'Engle. The book was published in 1962; its staying power is illustrated by ...

Astronomers found that as planets form out of the chaotic churn of gravitational, hydrodynamic -- or, drag -- and magnetic forces and collisions within the dusty, ...

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America is holding its Nebula Awards conference in Los Angeles this weekend, and tonight, the group announced ...

Somehow, at the beginning of time, there was an imbalance of matter and antimatter. That's how all the stuff in the universe came about. Scientists think they ...

Spoiler alert: 'The Big Bang Theory' stars and producers elaborate on the big reveals and character turns from the series finale.

Instead of ballooning into spheres, as once thought, early supernovae ejected jets that may have seeded new stars.

On the 29th anniversary of the instrument's first image, a former analyst reflects on how it became a scientific powerhouse—and cultural icon.

New work suggests that planets that are solid all the way through and have low masses may have the best chance of surviving the surge of tugs produced by ...

Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue ...

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 ...

The utopian vision of humans colonising the red planet to solve our energy and population crises is a misguided fantasy, says science writer Philip Ball.

Captured in the visible light spectrum, this deep-space image paints a sharp and colorful picture of the great Orion Nebula.

One hundred years ago, the English mathematician, astronomer and physicist Arthur Eddington led an expedition to the west coast of Africa, to best view the ...

While the Gaia spacecraft is designed to measure the positions and velocities of stars, the European Space Agency mission recently found three asteroids not ...

The moon is having a star turn. This summer will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, and the Trump administration has ordered NASA to ...

That distinctive voice you hear as you settle into “the theater of the stars” belongs to a down-to-earth star. Since April 19, the Carnegie Science Center's Buhl ...

One hundred years ago this month, the astronomer Arthur Eddington and a colleague went to an island off the coast of Africa to photograph a total eclipse of the ...

Astrophysicists have found signs of a cosmic event that created elements that sent gold and silver to Earth.

When it comes to living with a white dwarf star, the tiniest worlds will reign. Unluckier planets will be torn to shreds and ground to dust.

The stars of the coming-of-age comedy compare the film to their real-life high school experiences and explain how they became friends during the shoot.

Astronomers are puzzling over a paucity of planets in the galaxy measuring between 1.5 and two times Earth's size.

The data points popularised by platforms like YouTube — subscriber counts, number of video views, likes and dislikes — have made apathy quantifiable.

The recent redefinition of the kilogram based on quantum physics and Planck's constant has had major ramifications in this week's tabloids, where such weighty ...

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Emmy winner Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife") returns to TV with National Geographic's "The Hot Zone," about a near-deadly Ebola outbreak in 1989.

Gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars have been detected for the second time ever — along with another, less certain signal that could have ...

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ASTROPHYSICISTS have recreated the sound emitted by stars all throughout the universe and the bizarre sound is guaranteed to surprise you.

NASA astrobiology researchers identify features that could be used to detect life-friendly climates on exoplanets.

Be true to yourself and you can achieve your dreams is a message Mena Massoud embodies both in his breakout role as Aladdin, as well as in his own life.

A METEOR shower will produce a dazzling display tonight. But has the Met Office forecast the right weather to watch the Eta Aquarid meteor shower?

NASA's exoplanet-hunting TESS spacecraft has spotted three comets orbiting a star 64 light-years away, according to a new paper....

The big move could help our rocky planet escape the expanding sun and prevent a collision with Jupiter.

The buzzy app raised more than $5 million in seed funding last month. Where does it go from here?

In terms of ambition, it's hard to ask for more than to know absolutely everything there is to know about the Universe. That's the ultimate scientific dream: not just ...

After four decades, Star Wars is drawing to its epic conclusion. Lev Grossman goes behind the scenes with director J.J. Abrams and the cast for the inside scoop ...

Could it be that intelligent life is rare, hard to find, or not looking to be found?

On May 26, 1951, a girl born in Encino, California would grow up to become the first American woman in space. Though Sally Ride later inspired a whole ...

Since Apple News+ launched in March, publishers have been using the platform to showcase innovative live covers, customized features and more.

Astrologer Susan Miller has 17m followers, a figure set to double this year. So how has she made the ancient pseudo-science of fortune-telling a world-wide ...

Back on 11 November 2018, a planetwide rumble emanated from somewhere between eastern Africa and Madagascar. This strange signal, thought by ...

"Star Trek: Discovery" Season 2 spoilers ahead. The Season 2 finale of "Star Trek: Discovery" left us scratching our heads somewhat — after a one-way trip ...

Eren Orbey on the more recent journalistic investigations—among them “Believed,” the podcast, and “At the Heart of Gold,” a new HBO documentary by Erin Lee ...

You've likely imagined it before: another Universe out there, just like this one, where all the random events and chances that brought about our reality exactly as ...

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 ...

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 moon is having a star turn. This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, and the Trump administration has ordered Nasa to put ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

It was a big-budget, epic power battle jam-packed with political intrigue, plot twists and brutal betrayals. Also, Game of Thrones ended. In the wake of the 2019 ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Something weird is happening in our galaxy: It's spinning fast enough that stars ought to be flying off, but there's something holding them together.

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 ...

Astronomers peered into the dusky bulge of the Milky Way and found some of the oldest known stars in the universe. In a study to be published in the April 2019 ...

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

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 ...