Link up three DarkSky getaways just a short trip from D.C. This Virginia-West Virginia adventure totals roughly 150 miles ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare pair of spiraling stars about 150 light-years away, and they are headed on a [… ...

The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles ...

Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.

China’s satellite megaconstellation plans could clog low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages, analysts warn. Those ...

Astrophysicists have long suspected that some dark matter halos might exist without forming stars, but no one knew the exact mass limit where this transition occurs. A computational astrophysicist has ...

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

"When I first spotted this system with a very high total mass on our galactic doorstep, I was immediately excited." ...

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

A nearby cosmic ticking time bomb has been found! Just 150 light years away, a pair of white dwarf stars are on a death ...

Astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light years away. These two stars are on a collision course to explode as a type 1a supernova, appearing ...

University of Warwick astronomers have discovered an extremely rare, high mass, compact binary star system only ~150 light ...