Quentin Parker

Bipolar, binary planetary nebula have aligned themselves with the galactic "bulge" while glowing with ionized gas, putting on quite a show.

Scientists may have just tracked down the source of some mysterious infrared glows detected emanating from stars and clouds of interstellar dust and gas.

A strange supernova remnant first appeared as a "guest star" seen in 1181 by sky watchers in China and Japan

India did the seemingly impossible, by becoming only the fourth country in the world to reach the lunar surface earlier this year. Its Vikram lander safely...

Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital. Republican presidential hopefuls head to Iowa. China launches a new crew into space, including its first civilian astronaut.

Will the Sun make a planetary nebula when it dies?. In around 7 billion years, we expect the Sun to run out of fuel, dying in a planetary nebula/white dwarf combination. Is that for certain?.

Here's where the element was hiding all along.

The Xuntian Space Telescope is China's entry in a global race to unlock the secrets of dark energy, and it will now lift off no earlier than mid-2025

China is recruiting for a planetary defense force amid growing global focus on the risk of asteroids colliding with Earth.

For years, state lawmakers and Gov. Henry McMaster have voiced support for increasing magistrate qualifications and enhancing screening requirements, but...

Most of us have heard that the Sun is an ordinary, typical, unremarkable star. But science shows we're actually anything but average.

The completion of China's space station, while prompting U.S. concerns, opens doors for international collaboration.

Is there now at long last some plausible theoretical basis for the molecular origins and carriers of at least some of the most prominent unidentified infrared emission (UIE) bands that have mystified astronomers for decades?