Astronomy

Evidence from the Ohio River Valley suggests that Earth had a near-miss encounter with a comet about 1,600 years ago, and it still caused considerable devastation.

It’s taken 30 days and a lot of ‘space origami’ for the James Webb Space Telescope to unfold and reach its destination. Now the science begins.

"Pressure bumps" in the Sun's accretion disk when the planets were forming 4.5 billion years ago explain a lot about how the solar system developed.

New research says that our solar system sits in the center of a 1,000-light-year-wide 'superbubble' that was carved out by supernovae, creating star-forming regions along its edge.

The SETI Institute and University of Hawai'i have just installed new equipment on a mountain in East Maui, Hawai'i, that will help scan the night sky for alien communication via lasers.

Microsoft reveals new features and new partnerships for its space-oriented Azure offering.

A white dwarf was observed turning itself "on and off" for the first time, possibly the result of a rapidly rotating magnetic field.

A 900-year-old astronomical mystery has finally been solved as astronomers have finally uncovered the identity of a supernova recorded in China and Japan in 1181 CE.