Astronomers spot two stars the size of Earth headed toward a violent explosion - This discovery offers a glimpse into the ...

Astronomers bid an emotional farewell to Gaia, expressing their gratitude for its more than decade-long mission that gave us ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the ...

Astronomers have identified two massive white dwarf stars in a binary system within the Milky Way, poised for a rare ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

When their end comes, the stars will explode in a blast making them around 200,000 times brighter than Jupiter does now.

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

What if we spend decades building advanced telescopes to search for life on other planets and come up emptyhanded? A recent study exploring what we can learn about life in the universe -- even if we ...