An astrophotographer has captured an extremely rare and "difficult" photo of a solar flare exploding from the sun at the exact moment the International Space Station passed directly in front of our ...

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

Astronomers have spotted an alien planet orbiting so closely to its home star, the planet's magnetic field is triggering ...

A dramatic cosmic event, a rare dwarf nova that suddenly brightened by a factor of 2,500, has been discovered with the help ...

A luminous phenomenon surprised residents across the Nordic region on Tuesday night (1st), when a fireball streaked across ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

In western India, ‘islands’ in the sky are one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. A rare green meteor appears above the sky islands of India's Western Ghats mountains. Islands are not ...

SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground SpaceX’s Ship 36 experienced a ‘major anomaly’ Wednesday night just ahead of a planned static fire test in Texas.

Its Oskar exploding drone, which has polystyrene wings, carries a half-kilogram (one pound) warhead to detonate against troops and lightly armored vehicles. Delair developed it in under a year, ...

A SpaceX Starship exploded into a giant fireball at Elon Musk's Starbase test site in Texas during a test on Wednesday (18 June) night.