Tag: star

The "burp" is traveling at half the speed of light.

The European Space Agency released its treasure trove of stars.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

This will teach us a lot about how the element forms in the Universe.

Space is full of surprises.

I have it on very good authority that it's more than 20 degrees, for sure.

Up close and per-Sun-al.

Why not start with a bang, eh?

Stars come in many shapes and flavors.

A new study describes a technique that could be used to find wormholes.

We still don't know what dark energy *is*, but we found out another thing it isn't.

The other star we've found so far has so little iron -- a key indicator that it was forged close ...

The solar system is very different from our own.

The temperature around the sun is millions of times hotter than the sun's surface itself.

It was tens of thousands of times more massive than the ones our Sun puts out.

Now, that's a first!

Our galaxy is like a phoenix.

The planet is almost as hot as the Sun.a

Gluttony? Tsk tsk tsk.

Kind of puts things into perspective, doesn't it?

Space -- the prettiest frontier.

All babies are adorable, right?

Weighing without using a scale.

An incredibly fruitful mission sheds new secrets about the Milky Way.

The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.

If you happened to be alive 70,000 years ago, you'd be in for quite a show.

Giving "family dinner" a whole new meaning.

Turns out, planet farts are just like ours, but with chlorine!

It sounds like the plot of a bad movie -- but it's just science.

Greedy!

If there's one thing that black holes do extremely well, it's drawing things to them and destroying them.

Seeing is believing.

The European Space Agency's Planck satellite has revealed some information which may force us to rethink the evolution of the ...

This space snow could help scientists better understand planet formation and evolution.

This disposable battery runs on bacteria and folds like an origami ninja star. Sold!

NASA astronauts have discovered a lonely planetary-like mass floating on its own, without a solar system. A young, free-floating world ...

A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into ...

Many ancient civilizations made astronomical notes, but according to researchers, this is the earliest historical document of naked eye observations ...

This celestial lightsaber does not lie in a galaxy far, far away, but rather inside our home galaxy.

While the windy and overcast weather of a stormy day isn't surprising on telluric planets, it's not something most of ...

A team of Argentinian astronomers, peering up in the night's sky from the Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba has found a ...

It's likely not aliens, but it could be - and it's really, really strange.

A novel mathematical model can weigh the mass of a pulsar - a rapidly rotating magnetized neutran star - using ...

The gargantuan cluster is 9.8 billion light years away from us, houses at least 27 galaxies and has a combined ...

A chance discovery has provided experimental evidence that stars may generate sound. While he was examining the interaction of an ...

Astronomers have discovered a star racing at a incredible pace of 2.6 million miles an hour (4.2 million kilometers an ...

Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

A star like our Sun is shown with an orbiting planet in the foreground in this artist's impression. Image credit: ...

Astronomers working on the Kepler telescope believe that every 1 in 6 stars hosts at least an Earth-sized planet in ...

I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is ...