We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

The only place that's likely to happen is at the very center of our galaxy. And, for a while, there was an excess of ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely valuable.

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's most long-awaited surveys begins. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) ...

For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

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

He is a photographer, those were his photographs of black city life we saw behind the credits, and that white and black Americans view the same situations through very different lenses is something he ...