NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

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Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

New research reveals the extent to which Mars is quietly tugging on Earth’s orbit and shaping the cycles that drive long-term ...

Astronomers have observed a white dwarf – a highly compact Earth-sized stellar ember – that is creating a colorful shockwave ...

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...

Carnegie’s Luke Bouma shared groundbreaking research at the American Astronomical Society meeting, demonstrating that large ...

The question of life on other worlds has become a serious area of research, writes science reporter Ivan Semeniuk. Over the ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

Discovered by volunteer scientists, this alien planet is out of synch with its siblings ...