From ancient stargazers to modern-day space scientists, women have shaped our understanding of the cosmos. This crossword ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, but there are ways for stars to escape into intergalactic space.

New observations of a nearby red giant star suggest that a long-standing explanation for how giant stars spread life’s ...

Astronomers and scientists love Betelgeuse because it shines so brightly. While most stars appear as tiny points of light, ...

The discovery of stars with their outer layers of hydrogen stripped by companions fills a glaring hole in our understanding of supernovas and binary systems with colliding neutron stars. When you ...

Hints of impossibly bright, massive objects in the infant universe have forced astronomers to rethink how the first cosmic ...

Astrophysicists have achieved an eye-opening leap in understanding stellar death, capturing unprecedented, detailed images of two exploding stars that demonstrate these blasts are far more complicated ...

And the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association holds- free "star parties" for schools and other opportunities for the public to scan the night sky through members' telescopes. Take an orbit around this ...

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