Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

A man who saw a large glowing spiral in the night sky on Monday, believed to have been caused by a SpaceX rocket launch, has said it "almost looked like a jellyfish". Michael Coates, from Hexham in ...

The Met Office has explained the likely cause of the glowing white spiral visible across the UK night sky. An illuminated ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

American astronaut Don Pettit has shared some striking footage captured from the ISS showing star trails and city lights.

According to the team's calculations, about one supernova happens every 400 million years within close enough vicinity to Earth that its radiation could impact the atmosphere. The nearest stars ...

A new study reveals that supernova explosions may have caused two mass extinctions on Earth 372 million and 445 million years ago by damaging the planet’s atmosphere and triggering climate shifts.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore spoke about their continued stay aboard the International Space Station ...

SpaceX is scheduled to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ... Then, NASA officials expect ...