A recent study from the University of Michigan investigated the impact of proton radiation — a major threat in space — on ...

The rapid spin of this white dwarf, that is vampirically taking stellar matter away from a companion star, could be explained by its shrinking radius. While the white dwarf won't erupt in a supernova ...

The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized ...

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From the northern lights ringing in the New Year to a spectacular meteor shower, January is shaping up to be an exciting ...

Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, is the only object in the Solar system other than Earth with liquids on its surface. Discovered ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told ...

In 2025, the Rubin Observatory in Chile will start operations and survey the southern sky every four days with a 3.2 gigapixel camera.

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than ever before. It traveled at 430,000 mph, making it the fastest ...