Astronomers discovered a planet that orbits its star so closely that its surface is being scorched into magma and vaporizing ...

About 140 light-years from Earth, there is a planet that is rapidly disintegrating. The crumbling world is roughly the mass [ ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The discovery not only ...

These are the kinds of questions astrophysicist and science journalist Adam Becker poses in his new book, More Everything ...

It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.

“In space no one can hear you scream.” If space were truly empty—an utter vacuum, devoid of any matter—then yes, the Alien ...