Known as blue straggler stars, these age-defying celestial objects have mystified astronomers for more than 70 years. "Blue ...

Every week, Space.com delivers the latest discoveries, launches, and cosmic curiosities from across the universe. From groundbreaking research aboard the International Space Station to dazzling new ...

Their new study shows that Earth’s massive drop in temperature after the dinosaurs went extinct could have been caused by a large drop in calcium levels in the ocean. The study showed that the ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the ...

Astronomers have detected a mysterious object in our galaxy that emits intense bursts of radio waves and X-rays with ...

The month of February gets under way with the full “Snow” Moon visiting the Beehive star cluster.

Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star dies.

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

Jupiter, king of our Solar System’s planets, continues to dominate the night sky in February.  Lying inside the zodiac constellation Gemini (twins), which sits well up in the eastern sky, it is the ...

Cosmic radio pulses repeating every few minutes or hours, known as long-period transients, have puzzled astronomers since ...