Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just gave a cosmic mystery a serious plot twist. The event in question—a ...

Ben Semanoff, who directed the departure of a major castmember, talks to The Hollywood Reporter about how his penultimate ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided a closer look at the aftermath of a star that wreaked violence on its planet ...

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

An unseen planet bigger than Earth is lurking at the far edges of our solar system, according to some astronomers. A powerful new telescope that's about to start up has a really good chance of ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer Lorena Hernández-García.

New observations upended scientists' standing hypothesis about how a star would engulf a planet, causing its demise.

Researchers have proposed many origins for a gravity anomaly in Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, but the latest evidence ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton is playing a crucial role in investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of ...