Space

How to kill an asteroidRobin George AndrewsWW Norton & Co., $29.99 The dinosaurs met a gruesome death at the hands […]

The moons of Mars may be the remnants of an asteroid with a rogue star that came too close to

While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling Internet access and mobile communications around the globe, they are also posing a threat

Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse! The red supergiant that marks Orion’s left shoulder may have a tiny, unseen companion. Two independent studies found

A red dwarf star known as Barnard’s Star, located just six light-years from our solar system, has at least one

NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its way to help solve a quarter-century-old mystery: Could anything live in the ocean

Dozens of runaway stars were caught escaping from a dense star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid that keeps pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called

The first glimpse of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical

A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to inhabit miniature