On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Find out what's up in your night sky during January 2026 and how to see it in this Space.com stargazing guide.

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Many stars die spectacularly when they explode as supernovae. During these violent explosions, they leave behind thick, ...

The new paper argues that, in SN 1181, the first phase of the supernova fizzled out and left behind an unusually active ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...