Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old. The event was first signaled by a gamma-ray burst and later confirmed ...

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

The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into ...

Illinois residents may be able to catch a peek of the first full moon of 2026 tonight. Here's when to venture outside.

The Beehive Cluster, also known as Messier 44 (M44), is an open star cluster made up of at least 1,000 stars and is one of ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

A spectacular supermoon and the first meteor shower of the new year will soon appear in the California night sky. The supermoon will be the fourth massive moon in a row to rise above the Golden State.

If scientists are able to inspect it in person, and they find that Mars was indeed once alive with microbes, we would know ...

Hubble reveals a chaotic spiral galaxy whose close encounter with a neighbor has ignited a spectacular burst of star birth.