"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...

If you needed another reason to visit Ireland this spring, the clear night skies and bright stars are becoming a huge draw ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

SPHEREx hopes to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries, while PUNCH will study the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Here's what to know.

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth are shutting off instruments in interstellar space, but their mission in interstellar ...

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...

The Houston-based space startup is one of many companies primed by NASA to return the United States to the moon, with greater private sector involvement seen as a lower cost but higher risk means of ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

Astronomers have for the first time observed a recurring nova outside of the Milky Way in near-infrared light. The data revealed highly unusual chemical emissions as well as one of the hottest ...

There is apparently a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy that is hurling hyper-fast stars into our home galaxy. This is what a research group led by Jiwon Jesse ...