Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in ...

Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...

New X-ray observations reveal Betelgeuse’s mysterious companion is not a collapsed stellar remnant but a young, Sun-like ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team led by Northwestern University has for the first time ...

O'Grady and her colleagues found no sign of X-rays in the Chandra data. Even assuming that the wind gusting out of Betelgeuse ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

A Met Office map below shows the UK at 9pm this evening, October 12. The red indicates a 90% chance of the Northern Lights ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory might seem like a bunch of humble buildings in the middle of nowhere. Yet, there a team of ...

The moon, just hours past its last quarter phase, will rise above the east-northeastern horizon shortly before midnight local ...

Mars is closer than ever, but the human body isn’t ready. Inside the biological war against radiation, microgravity, and ...

Tackling the John Muir Trail at night with only stars and moon to light the path, a veteran hiker experiences the popular 200-mile trail in a new—and wilder—way.