Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

Created as a tribute to dark matter pioneer Vera Rubin, the image was created with the aid of a vast array of telescopes.

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

A planet that is snuggled up closely with its host star may be igniting colossal flares that strip it of its own mass.

Colorado residents and visitors who tilt their heads skyward after dark this July will witness awe-inspiring astrological ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur ...

Read The Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31 (M31), is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way at a distance of about ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

The dust hurts air quality not only by giving skies a milky haze, but also by aggravating respiratory problems and triggering ...