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"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...

The fact that this carbon dust can potentially survive for centuries could change how we think about the building blocks of new stars.

There have been plenty of epic space battles in science fiction movies and TV, but at the end of the … Continue reading "Star Trek’s Best Space Battles, Ranked" ...

Women in space: An international timeline of their milestones to the stars and back More than 600 people who have launched into space. Only 100 have been women. Here are those who made milestones ...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was the first show to feature Section 31 and they're still the best to do it, because they understand how it relates to the franchise's moral perspective.

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

This illustration shows an exoplanet orbiting around two brown dwarfs –– objects bigger than gas-giant planets but too small to be proper stars. ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a ...

It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.

A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny molecules that sustain life. Just beyond this fragile layer lies the ...

As massive stars collapse into black holes, powerful jets tearing out from their hearts may "dissolve" the stars' outer layers, providing the ingredients to make heavy elements.

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is retiring. The European Space Agency’s space-based observatory known as Gaia ...