The wealth divide grows as boomers hold more assets than Gen X and millennials combined. Timing, not financial savvy, ...

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

Testing whether blocking the end of a gun could actually cause it to explode.

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

More information about a mysterious, energetic burst, formally known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), spotted in space 13 billion ...

The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

Using debris modeling and simulations, the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the military that deals with the nation’s space ...

Maharashtra-born astronomer Shrinivas Kulkarni wins the Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal for groundbreaking ...

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

The blast may have been a kilonova — a type of neutron star merger — in the wake of a more traditional supernova.

A mile-wide asteroid known as 2005 UK1 will safely pass Earth on Jan. 12, 2026, at 32 times the moon’s distance, posing no ...