Astronomy

If you were in the Florida Keys or Viñales, Cuba last Friday and you saw a fireball explode overhead with an ear-shattering sonic...

If you're seeing news of the upcoming super-blood-wolf-moon-apocalypse and thinking to yourself, "wait, didn't we just have one of...

Though you might not have heard of it, Barnard's Star is something of a celebrity among fans of science and sci-fi--apart from being...

Using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, a group of citizen scientists have made an intriguing discovery: an exoplanet twice...

Like Tabby's Star, the mystery surrounding 'fast radio bursts' (or FRBs) has piqued the interest of scientists and science enthusiasts...

Since its first published photo in May, NASA's TESS (short for "Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite") has discovered more than 80...

When Goldman Sachs declared that the first trillionaire would make their money in mining asteroids (like Psyche 16, a space rock...

We wouldn't say we take Saturn's rings for granted, but the idea of them someday not being there has never really crossed our minds,...

An international group of researchers led by a team at the University of Geneva have found an exoplanet with an atmosphere that is...

They may not have had WiFi or indoor plumbing, but our cave dwelling ancestors were smarter and much more advanced than some people...

Despite millions of light-years between us and most exoplanets, we're not only getting better at spotting them, we're now able to...

Over the past year or so, different scientific studies have argued that so-called 'rogue planets' (ie, planets without a star to...

A 'dark matter hurricane' sounds like something out of a comic book, but it's nevertheless real (as far as we know--dark matter is a...

Few things are more powerful, cataclysmic, or vast than a merger between supermassive black holes, but galactic mergers are one of...

If there are galactic archaeologists, what about stellar homicide detectives? Scientists recently spotted a star called CPD 64°2731...

Science Alert reports a team of astronomers have discovered a little star in the Milky Way Galaxy believed to be around 13.5 billion...

Just when we thought the question was settled for good, here we are again: discussing whether the tumbling, cigar-shaped object known...

Two new studies (found here and here) have found compelling evidence for the existence of 'dust moons' called Kordylewski dust...

There are some awesome job titles out there, like "Digital Prophet" and "Dean of Pizza, but "galactic archaeologist" probably takes...

One thing many people don't understand about astronomy is that you can learn as much from what you can't see as what you can. Black...