Some stars don’t just shine; they also manufacture the raw ingredients of future worlds.

Standing inside a dome in Citadel Mall, under a simulated sky, it’s easy to forget how remarkable that is: a city known for its past now helping shape curiosity about the future. The Charleston ...

How is it that galaxies merge and collide but the universe is expanding and everything is moving away from everything else? Justin HammersleySterling Heights, Michigan Whether or not galaxies merge ...

Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest surviving buildings. You can't watch it being built, you can't interview the architects, all you have are the structures ...

A galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter, an elusive form of matter that doesn’t interact with light, was spotted by Hubble 250 million light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't sure when it will go supernova.

Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine together after sunset in early March, with Mercury at its best of 2026.

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A subtle gravitational-wave “hum” from merging black holes may help settle the cosmic fight over how fast the universe is ...