Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of years, slowly fading away as a dark, solid carbon-oxygen ball.

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the many planets currently in our night sky. You’ll see four of the five planets visible without optical aid. Venus and Saturn are in the ...

JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.

Future moonwalkers will need to take advantage of new spacesuit designs, including updated footwear, to accomplish their tasks.

The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...

Planets with suns like Wolf 359 are subject to huge blasts of radiation that raise questions about their long-term ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch a close pairing of two naked-eye planets: Venus and Saturn. The ...

In a letter to his replacement, outgoing NASA leader Bill Nelson emphasizes the agency’s activities ‘transcend the length of ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

A proposed massive hydrogen-fuel production project in Chile has astronomers galvanized in concern and opposition. One astronomer calls the possible Chilean facility a “nightmare” for the ...