Mercury begins a rapid plunge toward the setting sun. By early July, Mercury is lost in the glare of the sunset. By late July, Mars begins to sink into the ...

Never let the guy with the broom decide how many elephants can be in the parade.” Even if I was the guy with the broom, I’d ...

A piece of Mars delivered from space is soon going to the auction circuit, and is supposedly going to demand a hefty price.

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

An asteroid has been named in honour of a Victorian astronomer after research revealed she was the first woman at the ...

Predicted by Einstein and dismissed as undetectable, gravitational waves were finally heard in 2016. Now, with observatories ...

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In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was ...

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Technological University of the Shannon have signed a landmark MOU to enhance ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.