We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

At a distance of just over four light years, Proxima Centauri is our nearest stellar neighbor and is known to be a very ...

Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

The film discusses the formation of the solar system, originating from a vast cloud of gas and dust over 4.5 billion years ago. It highlights the role of comets, which may contain remnants of the ...

The companion star in this system has a mass that is 1.174 solar masses (M ⊙), which is significantly lower than that of other known neutron stars with accurately measured masses. The nature of ...

luminous star. Brown dwarfs are too small to create this fusion, and become solitary objects in the cosmos, without signs of a surrounding solar system. These new observations, and those ...

Our sun belongs to a spiraling galaxy filled with star-forming neighborhoods. Astronomers recently found that our entire solar system traveled through a dense region in the constellation Orion about ...

"It’s kind of like a Star Trek shield," Lonsdale, founder of Epirus and a co-founder of fast-rising defense technology company Palantir, explained of its Leonidas counter-drone system.

Unlike the total solar eclipse in April 2024, the upcoming total lunar eclipse, the first since November 2022, doesn't require special equipment to witness safely. Here's what makes the lunar ...

She isn’t switching off the lights more or taking shorter showers. Solar panels are making the difference. “Long story short, it’s really been a blessing,” the single mother of two said ...