A distant family member died and I just found out I'm stuck handling their estate. What to do when you're named executor and discover you're in charge of a dead relative’s finances.

I n a groundbreaking moment for astronomy, scientists have detected a coherent radio signal from a distant planet, reigniting ...

On a dark night, you could even see a candle flame flickering up to 30 miles (48 km) away. How far the human eye can see depends on how many particles of light, or photons, a distant object emits.

A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the headstock, earning the nickname "flame-throwing guitar." ...

This is an artist’s impression of JADES-GS-z14-0, which as of today is the most distant confirmed galaxy. Galaxies in the early Universe tend to be clumpy and irregular.

Day 16 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a new view of a distant spiral.This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC 628 in a new light. The galaxy, also known ...

But WD0032-317B, which is 1,400 light-years from Earth, is not like most brown dwarfs. In a paper published to the preprint database arXiv and accepted by the journal Nature Astronomy, researchers ...

Like a moth to a flame, er, lamp, insects are drawn to bright lights because they confuse the animals' navigational systems. By Richie Hertzberg. October 5, 2018 ...

This confirmed that FRB 20220610A had broken the record for the most distant fast radio burst. Host galaxy of FRB 20220610A, as observed by the Very Large Telescope in Red (R-band) optical light.