We may be witnessing the messy death of a star in real time

For over two centuries, we have watched the red giant R Leonis dim and brighten with regularity, but this ‘heartbeat’ is beginning to speed up near the end of the star’s life.

This company is taking $1 million reservations for hotel rooms on the moon

A California-based start-up wants to open a hotel on the moon by 2032 and is now accepting bookings for the out-of-this world travel experience.

Experts push back against cancellation of NASA’s Mars sample return project

Exploration advocates are pushing back against the planned cancellation of NASA’s Mars sample return project, saying it could potentially find evidence of Red Planet life.

How Earth’s orbit might help us find oil reserves within the planet

Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth’s orbit affected not only the climate, but also the development of shale oil reserves.

Mystery shockwave around dead star stuns astronomers: ‘We found something never seen before and entirely unexpected.’

“The surprise that a supposedly quiet, discless system could drive such a spectacular nebula was one of those rare ‘wow’ moments.”

Satellite sees 40-year-old iceberg melt, turn blue | Space photo of the day for January 12, 2025

Iceberg A23-A has been around since the Chernobyl explosion and Space Shuttle Challenger accident…but perhaps not for much longer.

Astronomers discover cosmic hamburger has the potential to grow giant planets

“The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect laboratory for understanding how giant planets can form.”

Astronomers baffled by ‘mysterious disruptor’ with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart

“This is a structure we’ve never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object.”

I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon’s high desert, and the dark skies blew me away

Located south of Bend’s outdoor playland, I visited this Pacific Northwest gem for an enchanted winter evening of astronomical wonders