A great Tyrannosaurus rex strides through the conifer trees of her territory, sniffing the air. She picks up the scent from the carcass of a...

For decades, scientists searching for life beyond Earth have focused on one big question: what kinds of molecules should they look for on other...

For years, planets orbiting two stars have seemed more like science fiction than reality. The most famous example is probably Tatooine, the desert world from...

For more than 700 years, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has been celebrated as one of the greatest works of literature ever written. Most readers...

Astronomers have captured breathtaking new images of one of the strangest places in space: a glowing cloud filled with giant carbon molecules shaped like...

You’re a long-necked Titanosaurs grazing the plains and chomping away on tree leaves about 100 million years ago in the Early Cretaceous in what...

Black holes live forever, at least according to general relativity. Once material crosses a black hole's event horizon, it is trapped forever. Until the...

A worldwide group of volunteer sky watchers has helped scientists make one of the biggest discoveries of nearby brown dwarfs ever recorded. Through NASA’s citizen...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered powerful winds blasting out of some of the universe’s earliest galaxies, offering new clues about...

Four humans recently looped around the moon. Their vessel, an Artemis capsule, was a thin metal shell whose life-support system kept them alive: it provided...

Astronomers using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered new clues about one of the strangest planetary systems ever discovered. About 190 light years...

Astronomers have long been fascinated by the powerful jets emanating from black holes. These jets result from gas and dust being pulled into the black...

A curiously yellow pre-supernova star has caused astrophysicists to re-evaluate what is possible at the deaths of our Universe's most massive stars. The team describe...

Researchers have discovered an exciting new source of gravitational waves. They are the remnants left over from a supernova explosion.

Astronomers have captured something extraordinary: the aftermath of a violent collision between large space rocks in another planetary system. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists...

Astrophysicists have identified a violent collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion years ago as the likely source of some of the most coveted...

Why would a young Sun-like star suddenly belch out a hugely bright flare? That’s what astronomers at Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory want to know after...