The Sun will die, and it’s going to be spectacular. In approximately five billion years, our star will exhaust the hydrogen ...
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 20Once the waxing Moon sets this evening, its ...
While we tend to think of the night sky as a permanent, unchanging backdrop to our lives, the reality is […] ...
Advances in supercomputing have made solving a long‐standing astronomical conundrum possible: How can we explain the changes in the chemical composition at the surface of red giant stars as they ...
The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.
A ‘runaway’ black hole ejected from its host galaxy is barrelling across space — and leaving behind a wake of newborn stars.
How big would a telescope need to be to see Earth’s dinosaurs from 66 million light-years away? Think big—and then think ...