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

Using NASA’s IXPE, astronomers captured an unprecedented view of a white dwarf star actively feeding on material from a companion. The data revealed giant columns of ultra-hot gas shaped by the star’s ...

Our Sun will not explode like other stars. Instead, it will slowly expand into a red giant, consuming inner planets. This ...

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

“It’s a milestone in solar physics,” said Ioannis Kontogiannis, a solar physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

NASA’s IXPE has just revealed the hidden geometry of a white dwarf’s cosmic feeding frenzy—using X-rays to see what no ...

Sometimes progress in space science does not arrive with a flash. It comes quietly, through patient observation, and then settles into place. That is .

A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...

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

By Michael AllenFor the first time, scientists have used NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white ...

The biggest interior grizzly bear ever killed by a bowhunter was shot in May 2009 by Pennsylvania hunter Rob Debias. It was ...

The first “Big One” earthquake in more than a decade has rattled the world. What if it had happened anywhere else? Say, ...