Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...

How can star populations help astronomers re-evaluate the search for intelligent extraterrestrial life, also called ...

The puzzling electric charge on clouds of interstellar gas can be explained by the passage of two hot, bright stars close to ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole sitting at the core of the Milky Way. It has a mass of 4.3 million times our ...

Astronomers have long believed that the region around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is one of the most ...

"During the early solar system's game of cosmic billiards, Earth was struck by a neighbor,” said Dauphas. “It was a lucky shot. Without the moon's steadying influence on our planet's tilt, the climate ...

Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025 that may ...

Researchers from di University Witten Herdecke wey base for Witten, Germany, bin examine di data of 648 singers, half of whom ...

IIA researchers link Lithium-rich red giant stars to enhanced Helium abundance, revealing insights into stellar evolution and composition.

A new study casts doubt on the universe’s accelerating expansion, suggesting dark energy might be weakening over time.

Fame can take as many years off a musician's life as occasionally smoking cigarettes, a new study has found, after comparing ...

A new trick with light has now helped capture the sharpest-ever measurement of a disk around a nearby star, beta Canis ...