There are sunsets on other planets even more spectacular than the ones on Earth. What if we could see not just one, but two ...

Several stellar-mass black holes may be lurking inside or near the Hyades star cluster, roughly 150 light-years from Earth, ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many similar streaks across the sky, as I spend ...

The glittering image, taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, heralds a new age of planetary discovery ...

For a long time, Earth’s ending seemed settled. In about five billion years, the sun will swell into a giant, the inner Solar System will be transformed, and our planet was widely expected to be ...

A new set of supercomputer simulations published June 5, 2026 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has provided the most quantitatively precise confirmation yet of why binary star ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising force that may help explain how binary star systems form so quickly. New supercomputer simulations show that magnetic fields surrounding newborn stars can act ...

(Nanowerk News) New simulations show that interactions with a magnetic field can work to decrease the distance between still forming binary protostars. These results can help explain the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. For decades, astronomers and stargazers have been waiting ...

Massive stars, those exceeding approximately eight solar masses, lose a substantial fraction of their material through stellar winds driven by the transfer of momentum from intense radiation to metal ...

The LHAASO observatory has detected gamma rays above 100 TeV from a gamma-ray binary for the first time, challenging current models of cosmic particle acceleration. (Nanowerk News) The Large High ...