A fully aligned James Webb Space Telescope captures a glorious image of a star By Hannah Seo / May 5, 2022
Rare ‘upside-down stars’ are shrouded in the remains of cannibalized suns By Leto Sapunar / Feb 19, 2022
Real shooting stars look a lot different than you’d expect By Idan Ginsburg / The Conversation / Jan 9, 2022
Astronomers may have an origin story for ‘The Cow,’ a mysteriously powerful cosmic blast By Leto Sapunar / Dec 19, 2021
A newly discovered planet orbiting a dead star offers a glimpse of Earth’s future By Leto Sapunar / Oct 25, 2021
These 5 mysterious space objects straddle the line between planets and stars By Charlie Wood / Sep 2, 2021
Flickering light could help astronomers weigh supermassive black holes By Charlie Wood / Aug 12, 2021
This Colorado community fought to save its darkness—and all that relies on it to thrive By Sarah Scoles / Jul 13, 2021
Science Has Discovered the ‘Pigtail’ Molecular Cloud and it is Beautiful By Clay Dillow / Sep 6, 2012
Cold weather is the best time to look at—and photograph—the night sky By Stan Horaczek / Feb 17, 2021
We still don’t really know what’s inside the sun—but that could change very soon By Charlie Wood / Nov 30, 2020
Astronomers caught a black hole slurping up a star like spaghetti By Paola Rosa-Aquino / Oct 19, 2020
A lopsided pair of dead stars could reveal some of the universe’s secrets By Paola Rosa-Aquino / Jul 9, 2020
A new view of the Pillars of Creation gives further clues to its gassy demise By Jessica Boddy / Apr 14, 2020
Elon Musk insists his satellite swarm won’t interfere with science. This model disagrees. By Charlie Wood / Mar 19, 2020
This new solar orbiter will peek at some of the sun’s most secretive spots By Charlie Wood / Jan 28, 2020
There’s a bizarre group of shapeshifting objects at the center of the Milky Way By Charlie Wood / Jan 16, 2020
The biggest gaseous structure in our galaxy is filled with baby star factories By Charlie Wood / Jan 8, 2020
A hundred stars have disappeared—and researchers aren’t ruling out aliens By Charlie Wood / Dec 20, 2019
White dwarf star spotted nibbling on the atmosphere of a nearby icy planet By Charlie Wood / Dec 9, 2019
There’s a chance the black hole at the center of our galaxy is actually a wormhole By Charlie Wood / Oct 25, 2019
Here’s how life could thrive on a planet orbiting a black hole—and other alternative suns By Charlie Wood / Oct 18, 2019