Astronomy

Every year around this time, at least since 36CE, a light show has commanded the attention of skywatchers around the world. Named...

When you think of comets – those glorious snowballs blazing through the night sky – you probably picture a fiery, star-white...

Something outside our galaxy is signaling us. An unnaturally-deep fast radio burst came booming out of the skies and astronomers are...

Members of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) team announced late last week that the agency's new telescope has...

It's the top-trending story on Google News' science section and it's making the rounds in headlines across the world. We're talking,...

One aspect of Einstein’s theory of general relativity has just been proven on an unheard-of supermassive scale at the center of the...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanet candidates over the years, but don't let that number fool you — it's not an easy...

If renderings showed just how brutal things actually are in space, museums would have to issue warnings for visitors under a certain...

As a child, you probably heard stories and nursery rhymes about the man in the moon and were disappointed when you learned that no...

Hello, space police? We'd like to report a crime scene. While studying Chandra X-Ray Observation data, NASA reports that a group of...

If we were to host a system-wide beauty contest among the planets and accepted natural satellites as a valid skill, Jupiter would...

The MeerKAT radio telescope sent new photos of the center of our Milky Way galaxy as a Vulcan forge of energy throwing off heat and...

In Dante's Inferno – the first part of The Divine Comedy – the poet describes Hell as a series of nine concentric circles,...

Quasars are the brightest things in the universe. Astronomers have spotted several of them recently – but the discovery of PSO...

For years, Earth has been bombarded by cosmic rays emanating from a mysterious source astronomers couldn't identify. Now, new...

It's safe to say that astronomers and astrobiologists have spent thousands of hours trying to find the perfect exoplanet to harbor...

With the Fourth of July just one day away, we thought it'd be fun to put all those M-80s and sparklers into perspective by showing you...

As the Hayabusa2 spacecraft studies the asteroid Ryugu and the OSIRIS REx mission closes in on the monster rock known as Bennu, a new...

After introducing his theory of general relativity in 1915 and turning the scientific world on its head, Albert Einstein wasn't happy....

Using the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT), a group of astronomers led by a team at...