In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Minnesota and Wisconsin sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only ...

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

Cambridge scientists, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, have found gases on planet K2-18b suggesting potential signs ...

The James Webb Space Telescope reveals that planets may spiral into their stars, rather than being swallowed by expanding red ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft is 6 days and less than 50 million miles (80 million km) away from its second close encounter with an ...

The two brightest nighttime stars available in the Butler sky are Sirius and Arcturus. April is the only month of the year we ...

A distant planet's atmosphere shows signs of molecules that on Earth are associated only with biological activity, a possible signal of life on what is suspected to be a watery world, according to a ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...