The scientific community is warning about a 3,000-hectare power plant that is jeopardizing the darkness of the skies over the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared glow of an ancient supernova's light echo, revealing ...

A sphere which had a radius of 1 astronomical unit (the average distance between Earth and the sun) would require more material than exists in the entire solar system. It is far more likely that ...

Its highly elliptical orbit around the sun brings it as close as 1.03 astronomical unit (AU) to our home star and as far out as 10.37 AU. (One astronomical unit is the average distance between ...

To get around this problem, astronomers and scientists often use alternative units of measurement, such as light years, to measure astronomical distances. A light year is a unit used to measure ...

Once upon a time, the core of a massive star collapsed, creating a shockwave that blasted outward, ripping the star apart as ...