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Something happens once you see the world from a different perspective. It's called the "Overview Effect". But what does that mean?

Every star you see in the sky, including the sun, will someday die. It’s best to get used to that idea now, before things start to get heavy.

Welcome to the era of precision cosmology…where we’ve managed to very precisely measure everything we don't know about the universe.

Sometimes when you want to go out, you want to go out with a bang.

In 2018 the Japanese space agency sent the Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu, As a part of that mission, the spacecraft blasted material off the surface of the asteroid, put it in a bottle, and sent it back to Earth. Two years later that sample landed in the western deserts of Australia.

Meet TYC 7037-89-1, a six-star solar system. Astrophysicist Paul M. Sutter explains this stellar surprise discovery.

Exoplanets are planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, and every month seems to bring in a new batch of weird, wild, and wonderful worlds.

On behalf of Blue Origin, the opportunity of a lifetime is currently being auctioned off: the last seat on New Shepard, heading to space.

A vocal minority believes that the moon landing was all an elaborate hoax filmed on a sound stage in Hollywood, but it's no hoax. Here's why...

You would think that objects weighing billions of times the mass of the sun would be easy to find. Alas, it’s rarely that simple.

All planets with evidence of life please take a step forward. Not so fast, Venus.

All Stars die. Some stars go out with a bang. Some stars go out with a big bang — a supernova. And some stars are capable of something so spectacular, so rare, we don't even have a name for it yet.

There was a time, a time long, long ago, before the first stars appeared. The universe was young then and less than a billion years old. But will the fall of light be the end of the universe?

ID2299, a galaxy 13.8 billion light years away, died far too young.