Astronomy

Scientists rally to condemn growing rumors that the mysterious Planet 9 will wipe out life on Earth.During Outer Places' Science of...

Astronomers have just found a planet with an even cooler sunset than Tatooine. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for...

There are plenty of reasons humans could never live on a star, but for one star in particular, we can cross "unbreathable atmosphere"...

SETI just expanded its search for intelligent aliens in a big way. Over the next two years, a new initiative will search 20,000 star...

After a grueling national competition, NASA has just selected a team of Penn State scientists to build a...

A small object of unknown origin just crashed into Jupiter's atmosphere, and so far two astronomers have posted videos capturing the...

Japan just lost contact with their newest satellite, Hitomi. The satellite, whose name means "pupil of the eye" was supposed to...

Kepler has just observed the brilliant flash from the explosion of a star, or the "shock breakout" of a supernova." NASA released a...

Tomorrow morning, a lunar eclipse will be visible from Earth when the Moon moves into Earth's shadow and makes the whole world a...

Two comets are about to zoom past Earth, and while only one of them will be visible to the naked eye, the other will mark the closest...

Hubble just got a glimpse into a gorgeous "land of giants," the largest collection of monster stars ever observed by astronomers,...

The long-running mystery of Ceres' white spots may have been virtually solved late last year, but there's still plenty we don't know...

China just announced plans to build a space telescope that is even more powerful than NASA's Hubble, which will observe and image our...

Tomorrow night, on March 8, the Moon will pass directly between the Earth and the Sun, temporarily blocking the light of the Sun from...

Many methods have been proposed for finding intelligent extraterrestrial life, but considering the vastness of the universe, and the...

Scientists have just completed the sharpest, most detailed map of our galaxy yet. The APEX Telescope Large Area Survey of the Galaxy...

In the last few decades, astronomers have discovered over 1,000 exoplanets, but still haven't found any exomoons. Now, NASA is kicking...

Fast radio bursts were discovered by astronomers almost fifteen years ago, and yet there is still no generally accepted explanation...

Saturn's icy moon Dione is always in close proximity to Saturn's beautiful rings, but now NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured the...

NASA has been working overtime to turn deep-space locations into desirable space tourism destinations, and now they've released...