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

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

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

Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might

Most of Earth’s meteorites can be traced back to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and

Historians working with an artificial intelligence assistant have begun to trace the spread of astronomical thinking across Europe in the

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

About 7,500 light years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tentacles of hot sulfur. No one knows

The first samples from the far side of the moon contain signs of surprising volcanic activity near the lunar south