When "Fire Country" returns for Season 4 on Friday, it will be accompanied by a spinoff in the form of "Sheriff Country" -- ...

A new study sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy and why the life and death of nearby stars are ...

The new spectrograph on Chile's SOAR telescope captures Eta Carinae with unprecedented precision, revealing the secrets of ...

Astronomers have discovered a surprisingly "pristine" red giant with the lowest concentration of heavy elements ever seen in a star. It is likely a direct descendant of one of the universe's first ...

When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a faint object orbiting a distant star system, they weren’t ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

Not all stars are created equally. Astronomers believe that the first stars to form after the Big Bang were mostly made of ...

Gold, uranium, and other heavy elements on Earth did not form here. They were born in the violent deaths of massive stars and the collisions of neutron stars, traveling across the galaxy before ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...

Twenty-six local women who want to preserve, educate and provide public service for the benefit of history have big news for those who share the same interests. They’re the organizing members of the ...