This story is part of our Cosmic Perspective series, in which we confront the staggering vastness of the cosmos and our place in it. Read the rest of the series here. Subscribers can see a larger ...

A nearby supernova could ruin your whole day. It’s difficult to grasp just how powerful an event the explosion of an entire star is. The energy released as visible light every second by a typical ...

In some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer: we're all equally far away, we all share the right to look up at them; and, tiny glittering pinpoints that they are, when we contemplate ...

In an exciting breakthrough for astronomy and the search for extraterrestrial life, a team of international scientists has announced the discovery of Gliese 12 b, a temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet ...

Researchers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, along with academic institutions and private businesses, are developing the first space-based quantum gravity sensor.