A total lunar eclipse is sometimes called a blood moon, because of the reddish tinge
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Astronomers may have for the first time witnessed a sun-like Death Star devouring a planet, shedding light on the fate that will befall Earth in about four billion years when our dying sun swells to engulf our world, a new study...
The brightest star of the night sky, Sirio, will surely draw your attention in the night sky at this time of the year. Once the sky darkens after 7:30 pm local time, Sirius will appear in the southeastern sky, in the lower left...
The sun explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, according to SpaceWeather.com. The sunspot explosion released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which also led to a coronal mass...
Around the world, astrophysicists are poring over the blips of gravitational waves that ripple through Earth when distant black holes or neutron stars collide. One of those astrophysicists is Christine Ye, a 17-year-old student...
NASA and crowdsourcing platform HeroX have launched a $30,000 challenge to find better ways to analyze data relating to Mars’ potential to host life. The deadline to make your submission is April 18, and you can...
The James Webb Space Telescope key pointing instrument fixed on to a star for the first time, two space agencies reported. The Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS), a contribution from Honeywell on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency...
While normal stars have surfaces composed of hydrogen and helium, the stars discovered by Werner and his colleagues have their surfaces covered with carbon and oxygen, the ashes of helium burning — an exotic composition for...