Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

The American Astronomical Society (AAS), the SETI Institute, and the NASA Community College Network (NCCN) have teamed up to provide an exciting and impactful program that brings top astronomy ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

BENGALURU: It is possible to measure the Sun’s magnetic field using commercial dish TV antennas. In a major breakthrough to ...

Astronomers had long been suspecting that some stars do meet their end of life with a dual detonation and new images prove ...

July 3 (UPI) -- NASA discovered the third interstellar comet through a survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The ...

A massive object from outside the solar system is passing through, but the world is not in danger. It is a rare visitor, ...

When it comes to star formation, not all galaxies are the same. Some are quenched, meaning they've depleted their star ...

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...