Regular stars collapse and die once they run out of fuel for their nuclear reactions, but the white dwarfs just sit there, hanging out, for eternity.

The November 18, 2025, episode of Jeopardy! presented a challenge rooted in 17th-century astronomy, solved by the correct response, Johannes Kepler.

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

The spin-down of cool stars on the main-sequence, like our Sun, is a critical area of modern astrophysics, with strong links ...

A stunning new discovery reveals our solar system may be connected to distant stars by a vast interstellar “tunnel” carved by ...

Sarah Wild talks to astronomers across the world who are on a hunt for a subtle hydrogen signal that could confirm or disprove our ideas on the universe’s evolution ...

A new study uncovered fresh chemical evidence of life in rocks more than 3.3 billion years old, along with molecular traces showing that oxygen-producing photosynthesis emerged nearly a billion years ...