T Coronae Borealis (T CrB), also known as the Blaze Star, is a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. It periodically explodes in a recurring nova every 79 years or so, and it’s due ...

SpaceX tested the Plug and Plaser device for the first time in space last year on the Polaris Dawn mission, which was most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken its first look at the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 before a perilous close approach in 2032. The telescope confirmed Earth is safe, but there is a 3.8% chance ...

WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust forms as it leaks out into space. This is the result of the gravitational ...

NASA’s PUNCH mission just took a big step forward with the first images from its solar-observing instruments, revealing the ...

Discover the intriguing space explosion predicted in a rare double white dwarf system just 160 light-years away from Earth.

The orbital period of the system was measured to be 34.5 days ... A team of astronomers led by Nicola La Palombara of the Institute of Space Astrophysics and Cosmic Physics of Milan in Italy decided ...

In its second asteroid encounter, NASA's Lucy spacecraft obtained a close look at a uniquely shaped fragment of an asteroid that formed ...

From the vantage point inside a space capsule whisking around in Earth’s orbit, the phenomenon can occur more than a dozen times in a 24-hour period. Also among Fram2 ... that most hinges on Fram2’s ...

Why do comets and their meteoroid streams weave in and out of Earth's orbit and their orbits disperse over time? In a paper published in the journal Icarus, two SETI Institute researchers show that ...

NASA's James Webb telescope took an emergency look at the asteroid scientists feared would smash into Earth in 2032 ...