Stories by Phil Plait

Red dwarfs are dim bulbs but host more Earth-like planets than any other kind of star

How I learned to stop worrying and love the next Earth-threatening asteroid

The Lucy spacecraft and its target asteroids show that the way that we name discoveries matters

The Chelyabinsk asteroid slammed into Earth’s atmosphere 10 years ago, the largest impact in more than a century

Citizen scientists and researchers found that we are losing our view of the sky at an astonishing rate of almost 10 percent each year

Clues to the origin of this enormous cloud of gas have been maddeningly vague

A mass of moving material on Mars called a mantle plume may be causing marsquakes and volcanism

The IceCube observatory has detected neutrinos from an active galaxy for the first time, revealing clues about how supermassive black holes gobble matter

Much of North America can witness a delightful astronomical event on the evening of December 7 as the moon blocks out Mars

A new JWST image of a star surrounded by strange, rippling spirals reveals a hidden chapter in the story of how dust spreads across the cosmos

The death of a massive star far across the universe affected lightning on our planet and could teach us about the Milky Way