Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

For the first time, astronomers have captured the brilliance of a superluminous supernova via gravitational lensing.

Researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) are helping reshape how scientists study the Sun.

The surprisingly high amounts of chlorine and potassium in a supernova remnant could help solve the mystery of where these ...

For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge gas planets farther out, and, at the edge, a pair of “ice giants” – Uranus ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has once again dazzled scientists and stargazers alike with a striking image of a galaxy once ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

It's like why are you paying all this money to go to this fancy school if you're not going to study a hard science to try to ...

Learn more about brown dwarfs, the cosmic misfits that blur the line between planet and star.

When is winter? Weather forecasters in the Northern Hemisphere will tell you Dec. 1 through the end of February, which is ...

New study of Voyager 2 data shows Uranus experienced a solar wind event during the 1986 flyby, helping explain unusual magnetosphere readings ...