Astronomy

Though KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's star, is probably not host to an alien megastructure like a Dyson Sphere or an orbiting...

Most of the time, the difference between a star and a planet is pretty clear: a star is a huge ball that burns hydrogen and...

Lots of cosmic objects are given interesting nicknames, from the Cartwheel galaxy to the "Penguin and Egg" galaxy. So perhaps it...

Back in January, New Zealand-based spaceflight company Rocket Lab launched a controversial satellite called the Humanity Star into...

If you took all of planet Earth's supply of gold, melted it down (minus impurities), and attempted to fill as many Olympic-sized...

No, it's not Pluto. Unfortunately for die-hard astronomy fans, Pluto is still languishing in its dwarf planet classification, and now...

In the search for alien life, liquid water always seems to be the Holy Grail. Oceans are even better--oceans mean a lot of water and...

Fact: staring directly at the sun is a bad idea. The bright light from our planet's star can cause genuine retinal damage to anyone...

Some things in our solar system never change. Saturn? It has those cool rings. Neptune? Has that cool blue color. Jupiter? Has a giant...

In a time of instant messaging and the ability to circulate data around the world with a minimal delay, sending and receiving...

We like to think we know a lot about space. We can identify the chemical composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere from light-years...

Life needs a couple basic things: Reasonable temperatures, a lack of stellar radiation, and liquid water.If Proxima Centauri b is any...

Out of the many tasks which involve the Hubble Space Telescope, one in particular involved an "Indiana Jones-type quest" (NASA's...

Some of the flashiest and most gigantic events we've seen out in space involve galaxies colliding into each other. A galactic merger...

This past Wednesday, people from Oregon to British Columbia witnessed one of the biggest fireballs in years and heard what was likely...

Bright lights, debris clouds, and other weird phenomena are littered throughout the universe, but there's nothing else quite like the...

The sheer number of potentially world-ending asteroids swinging by our planet each month is enough to make a stargazer paranoid, but...

Getting up early is always a difficult experience. It can be disheartening to have to climb out of bed while it's still dark out and...

All things considered, the Earth is small--very small. Out of the thousands of exoplanets we've found over the past few years, only a...

Just the other day, news broke that radio signals created by some of the earliest stars in the universe had finally reached Earth...