Just 25 light-years from Earth, astronomers have watched a planetary system tear itself apart in real time, catching the dusty aftermath of violent impacts that were once only theoretical. Instead of ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 light-years of space, created by one of the galaxy’s most powerful electromagnetic ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...