This moon will coincide with other celestial events, including the Leonid meteor shower and the Pleiades star cluster. Here ...

The Arecibo Message as it appears when its 1,679 bits are properly aligned on a grid (left), an annotated illustration ...

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A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

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New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

An international team of scientists has made a major breakthrough in understanding how and when the Sun formed about 4.6 ...

Start-ups say we’re closer than ever to near-limitless, zero-carbon energy from fusion. When will we get there?

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Leonid meteors are a few years away from producing a storm that dazzles viewers once every 33 years, but they could still put ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...