The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Astronomers from the University of New Mexico, along with U.S. and international researchers, have confirmed the existence of ...

A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

Studies of 15 M-type stars have revealed new insights into the potential presence of exoplanets. A new study led by ...

Vera Cooper grew up gazing at the night sky from the window of a D.C. townhouse in the 1930s, when her teachers told the ...

The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. The Rubin Observatory released its first images last week, and they’re stunning—vast, ...