Sun-like stars live for around 10 billion years, but our Universe is only 13.8 billion years old. So what's the maximum lifetime for a star?
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Individual space telescopes, like Hubble and JWST, revolutionized our knowledge of the Universe. What if we had an array of them, instead?
What kind of object will you form? What will its fate be? How long will a star live? Almost everything is determined by mass alone.
Jupiter's atmosphere is hotter than it should be, and now we know why.
A newly discovered “ultrahot Jupiter” has the shortest orbit of any known gas giant.
Jupiter's mysterious auroral events are caused by vibrating waves of plasma.
Back in 1990, we hadn't discovered a single planet outside of our Solar System. Here are 10 facts that would've surprised every astronomer.
NASA is creating a planet habitability index, and Earth may not be at the top. With our current data, ranking habitability is guesswork.
Exoplanet LP 791-18d is likely to have an atmosphere and liquid water.
Even with all the recent impacts we've seen, it might be more "foe" than "friend" to us.
Even at its faintest, Venus always outshines every other star and planet that's visible from Earth, and then some!
The odds are slim, but the consequences would be literally world-ending. There really is a chance of a black hole devouring the Earth.
The Schumann resonances are the background hum of the entire planet. But they don't affect humans in any way.
Sooner or later, Earth is going to be hit by a large enough space object to cause significant damage to humanity. Stopping them isn't easy.
How can we understand mysterious planets like Jupiter? Use giant lasers!
Nearly 200 orbital launches are scheduled for 2022.
The first set of James Webb's images blew us all away. In just 2 mere months, it's seen highlights that no one could have predicted.
The story of how Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were made isn't a universal one. Some gas giants were built different.
If there are human-sized creatures walking around on other planets, would we be able to view them directly?
Now that it's fully commissioned, the James Webb Space Telescope begins its exploration of the Universe. Here are its first science images!
The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here's what it could do to Earth.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.
"I hope we take a mindset where we are willing to look for weird life in weird places."
In terms of the planets we've discovered, super-Earths are by far the most common. What does that mean for the Universe?
We've only seen Uranus up close once: from Voyager 2, back in 1986. The next time we do it, its features will look entirely different.
Many planets will eventually be devoured by their parent star. For the first time, we caught a star in the act, eating its innermost planet!
Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
The James Webb Space Telescope has chosen 5 targets for its first science release. Here's what we know on the eve of JWST's big reveal!
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.