Watch Night 2 Of Our iHeartRadio Music Festival!
The 2026 iHeartRadio Music Festival presented by Capital One is almost here, and a star-studded lineup of music’s…
Newfound ‘Baby’ Planet Smashes Record for Youngest Known World
Astronomers have confirmed a world that’s less than a million years old as the youngest known planet, using…
Rogue Planets Challenge Our Assumptions About Life in the Universe
In the early 2000s, scientists were scanning the skies for faint objects when they first began to come…
An eccentric massive protobinary assembled via a core-merger parabolic encounter
Chini, R., Hoffmeister, V. H., Nasseri, A., Stahl, O. & Zinnecker, H. A spectroscopic survey on the multiplicity…
The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events to See in September 2026
The proximity to the waning moon offers a good opportunity for spotting them. To the naked eye, they…
Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new…
Pluto’s atmosphere update! It’s thinning
NASA calls this image “Pluto’s Blue Sky.” It’s a backlit view of Pluto, acquired by the New Horizons…
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Look up at the night sky and the stars can seem impossibly distant, disconnected from the ordinary details…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: When dust gets in your skies | Astronomy
Today: Every star rotates. Our Sun takes a little less than one Earth month to rotate once on…
“I Jumped From My Chair” – Astronomers Discover a Hidden Star Orbiting Betelgeuse
This image shows the location of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter).…
Roman Series: Jupiters Around Other Suns
Episode description: NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on a quest to discover planets outside our solar…
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something. In a new paper in…