A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...

Easter falls on the Sunday that follows the first full moon occurring on or after the day of the spring equinox. So it seems ...

In a preliminary budget proposal, the agency’s science programs would see a 50 percent reduction, with a 20 percent cut to ...

Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, ...

Disney+ is the place to watch "Doctor Who" season 2 in the US. New episodes debut at 3.00am ET / 12.00 am PT every Saturday morning. Disney Plus prices start at $9.99 per month for the ad-supported ...

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Catch two transits of Io, spot sparkling star clusters, and view Mars at aphelion while the April Full Moon lights the sky this week.

The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds are well researched due to their proximity. The neighboring galaxies of our Milky Way still have surprises in store.

The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously believed." ...

In a star’s core, fusion takes terrific temperature and pressure that is provided by the crushing gravity of the star’s overlying mass. For a star to be relatively stable, the outward force of the ...