The sun may have swallowed a super-Earth planet in its early history, and our star may still be hiding the evidence, new ...

Astronomers already have evidence that stars can eat their planets. Some stars briefly brighten and swell after swallowing ...

Scientists used Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere as a planet-sized detector to search for some of the lightest proposed ...

NASA-funded studies suggest Earth’s climate has been influenced by both the Sun’s travels through dense regions of the Milky ...

In 2022, astronomers detected an absurdly bright and long-lasting gamma ray burst, GRB 221009A —nicknamed “BOAT,” for ...

While astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets over the last few decades, the true prize continues to elude them—they ...

We like to think of our home as a nice, smooth sphere. But mapping the Earth’s gravitational field provides a different view of the planet. a new visualization of Earth looks nothing like the Blue ...

The contradictory geology of the Apennines has long puzzled scientists. (Paolo Corsetti/Moment/Getty Images) Deep beneath our ...