Fireballs fall on the Earth every day—but the one that just streaked across the southeastern U.S. this week was unlike the ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange and exciting new object in space. Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a ...

According to the latest studies led by Heidelberg University astronomers, low-mass stars quite often host Earth-like planets. Data collected as part of the CARMENES project were the basis of this ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.