Astronomers once thought the universe’s first stars were only massive giants. New simulations and lab experiments reveal turbulence and early chemistry allowed smaller, Sun-like stars to form too.

As just one of all the living creatures on Earth, you're along for the ride as our planet constantly moves in two major ways.

Planets orbiting dead stars known as white dwarfs might be able to remain habitable thanks to general relativity subtly altering their motion. When stars like our sun run out of fuel, they expand and ...

Every week, it feels like something new pops up in space news. Lately, astronomy news today has been all over the place—from wild discoveries about the Sun to weird planets and black holes that break ...

This year's Harvest Moon will be a special treat for space fans since it will also be the first supermoon of the year.

While it’s hard to see the solar wind directly in photos once it leaves the corona, we can measure the gas directly with instruments in space. Scientists have recently gotten up ...

"It was just a matter of time before we found them." ...