"Failed star" brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.

With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ...

In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, ...

You might think the space between stars is completely empty, but it’s actually packed with way more stuff than you’d expect. While most of it just whizzes right past us here on Earth (if we’re lucky), ...

Billions of light years away in a remote part of the universe, two neutron stars – the ultradense remnants of dead stars – collided. The catastropic cosmic event sent light and particles, including a ...

Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for CNET. He is also the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...