Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Sedna, a distant dwarf planet three-quarters the size of Pluto, is inching toward the brightest star in our sky — and in 2076 ...

FXTs are failed gamma-ray bursts, the last signals from dying stars. A decades-long mystery now reveals stellar death is more ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...

The Oldest Material in the Smithsonian Institution Came From Outer Space Decades after the Allende Meteorite plunged to Earth, scientists still mine its fragments for clues to the cosmos ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) says a new project will be financed under Grant Agreement No5 with the European ...

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

With lessons learned from their first attempt, Kyoto University scientists hope a second CubeSat made of magnolia will spark ...

This development follows an earlier incident on June 9, when the same ship caught fire at sea off the Kannur coast after an ...