Recent astronomical observations have revealed a startling reality: aging stars are far more destructive to their orbiting ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Astronomers first documented a CME in 1859, in conjunction with the widespread energy grid disruptions that later became ...

Using advanced computer simulations, scientists have shown how easily a runaway greenhouse effect can rapidly transform a habitable planet into a hellish world inhospitable to life. The team of ...

The upcoming close approach to our planet presents a rare opportunity for scientists to study a space rock of its size. Ariana is the assistant news editor of Chron. Her stories focus on space, ...

Equatorial slices of the magnetic field (nT is nanoteslas) for space inside and at Trappist-1e (left) and for rotation 2016 of the sun at the same distance (right), as measured by the Carrington ...

LEGO is bringing education to life with their lattes LEGO Technic set that blasts off into outer space. Space awaits with the LEGO Technic Planet Earth and Moon in Orbit set that will help kids and ...

Astronomers from the University of Warwick have observed an exoplanet orbiting a star in just over 18 hours, the shortest orbital period ever observed for a planet of its type. It means that a single ...

Astronomers may have just found the luckiest planet in the universe. Someday our friendly yellow Sun will turn a baleful red and swallow up the inner Solar System. Eventually, it will cool and shrink ...