In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and collapse into a dense, Earth-sized remnant called a white dwarf. Though it will no longer shine as it once did, this stellar core ...

Star Trek may be one of the most iconic franchises in pop culture history, but it's also taken some missteps with some ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an outgoing path — but it’s not leaving our cosmic ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency lost contact with a probe orbiting Venus last year and officially calls it quits on the mission.

One aspect that worked so well about Farscape is that across four seasons of eighty-eight episodes, the show amazingly melded ...

SpaceX's work on government contracts gave it the money it needed to grow into the space company it is today. Blue Origin declined to bid on many of the contracts that SpaceX sought. Now Blue Origin ...

Columbia researchers say we haven't even begun to explore the possible consequences of stratospheric aerosol injections.

Some of the best sci-fi shows set on earth offer the genre's depth and creativity without venturing into space, from Black ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

Of the three November meteor showers, Leonids should be the most active. It is fed by the Tempel-Tuttle Comet, which can produce some dense debris clouds, resulting in very strong showers. Leonids is ...

Magnetic signatures hidden inside rocks tell us a lot about Earth's magnetic field and the way continents and tectonic plates have shifted across millennia – but for some periods, the geological ...

You know they’re past the point where money matters, right? You might say it’s a form of immortality … [they’re] in this for eternal glory, for doing great deeds.” ...