A spectacular meteor shower has an origin story in a “violent, catastrophic event,” a new study suggests....
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The moon and elusive Mercury will be close to the glowing red “eye” of The Bull, the...
Three spaceflight anniversaries, each separated by at least a decade, have a nexus, of sorts, in a...
Astronomers studying the fastest and most dramatic nova ever recorded continue to find more puzzles than answers....
Shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was a dark and mysterious place. And I mean really...
For the first time, phosphorus — the rarest of six elements upon which life as we know...
Heatwaves on Earth may be uncomfortable and even dangerous for some, but our planet has nothing on...
In a small desert town, dozens of unsuspecting people suddenly drop dead from a mysterious plague. The...
Two NASA astronauts are conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on today (June 15), and...
The gravity of a distant galaxy warped space and magnified the light of a faraway supernova, potentially...
