This Star Explodes Every 80 Years. And Survives. That’s how plutonium can wind up at the bottom of the ocean. The only problem is that geological processes on Earth, such as plate tectonics and ...

A new AI model from the University of Bern predicts planetary systems likely to host Earth-like planets. It could boost the ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

This explosion causes a sudden and dramatic increase in brightness, allowing the star, usually too dim to see, to become visible to the naked eye from Earth. There are records of TCrB exploding in ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...