Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC), in collaboration with the Institute of Astrophysics of ...

Runaway stars are stars that move through space at unusually high speeds, drifting away from the places where they were born. Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between stars, rather than on any planetary bodies. At the University of Aarhus in ...

After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit. A month ...

Eleonora Troja receives funding from European Research Council. Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The ...

"We found a collision within a collision. The galaxy collision triggered a wave of star formation that, over hundreds of millions of years, led to the birth and eventual collision of these neutron ...

What we know so far: Stars, like all living organisms, age according to predictable physical laws – or so astronomers once thought. Yet scattered throughout the Milky Way's oldest star clusters are ...