Astronomers call this "eruptive mass loss," and it's a stellar drama we're still trying to fully grasp.

Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to ...

"It is exhilarating to see 'galaxies' come out of our computer that look indistinguishable from the real thing." The post ...

Misbehaving buffer pointers, whose effects threatened to create a fatal project setback, were identified via a clever ...

Starlink satellites have been developed by SpaceX to provide internet to remote locations. Here we explore the controversial megaconstellation in more detail.

The EPA announced last month it will consider regulating microplastics — particles that can be microscopic — as a contaminant ...

Built in 1612, this massive astrolabe could track stars, time, and location with great accuracy—and now it’s heading to ...

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...

The Vatican Observatory announced in an April 29 press release that an asteroid has been named in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who ...

For the first time, an international team of astronomers has identified a clear boundary of the Milky Way’s star-forming disk ...