People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, your solar system had a brush with two blazing blue stars that passed surprisingly close ...

Happy New Year as 2026 kicks off with a full moon this Saturday and it’s guaranteed to be super! The Wolf Supermoon will ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

A new study shows how Milky Way chemical tracks emerge from shifting star formation and gas supply, reshaping ideas about the ...

The first full moon of 2026 and of winter in the Northern Hemisphere will shine brightly this week, just as Earth makes its ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Saturday, Jan. 3 will mark the first full moon of 2026. Known as the Wolf Moon, it will be at its fullest at 5:02 a.m. EST ...

A spectacular supermoon and the first meteor shower of the new year will soon appear in the California night sky. The ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower will peak overnight between Jan. 2 and Jan. 3, offering a brief but intense burst of meteors.

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...