Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster ...

Exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s is an unusual polar orbit of a pair of brown dwarfs. Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin Wallner. Editing: Angelos Tsaousis. Web and technical support: ...

The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

The first of our showers is the Delta Aquarids, with a broad three-day maximum running from July 29 through 31.

When planets are too close to the star they orbit, something absolutely life ending happens: the star siphons all of the ...

Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist best known for her discovery of pulsars. In 1967, when she was a graduate ...

The center of our galaxy is visible overnight on summer evenings, just off the tip of the Sagittarius Teapot’s spout in the ...

M esopotamia was a region of West Asia where present-day Iraq is located. The Sumerians were among the earliest civilizations ...

“It’s the most massive [merger] so far,” says Mark Hannam, a physicist at Cardiff University, UK, and part of the LVK ...

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

World Heavyweight Champion Gunther will defend his title against CM Punk at the WWE SummerSlam Premium Live Event.

The Perseids meteor shower, often hailed as the year's most spectacular celestial show, is set to happen across our night ...