Most astronomers agree that young galaxy clusters should be relatively cool compared to older ones. But researchers recently ...

Right now, the sun is shining through my window. It feels warm on my face. I talked about the sun with Guy Worthey. He’s a professor of astronomy and physics at Washington State University. He told me ...

"The Romance of Reality" explains how life and consciousness can proliferate despite the seeming contradiction between ...

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

NASA's advanced space observatory known as SPHEREx is on its cosmic journey to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries. The space telescope, which NASA has spent years developing, launched ...

We already knew that the Sun was pretty special, this bright ball of glowing gases sustains life on Earth by providing light and energy for living things to survive. But now, a study proves that the ...

While the Sun’s solar flares strongly correlate with sunspots, observations of more than 14,000 other stars show this is not generally the case.

As astronomers gaze into the depths of space, they do so with unease: They don’t know precisely what the universe is made of. It’s not just the true nature of dark matter that eludes them; so does the ...

UY Scuti is identified as the largest known star, approximately 1700 times the Sun's width, and is classified as a variable red supergiant exhibiting pulsations. RMC 136a1 is designated as the most ...