Star Trek‘s science consultant Dr. Erin Macdonald is an astrophysicist and science educator. She recently shared behind the scenes insights on multiple science and science fiction crossover panels at ...

Astronomers watching the Andromeda Galaxy have now seen something they had only theorized before: a massive star that simply vanished, apparently collapsing straight into a black hole instead of ...

Is Star Trek really a science show, or just a lot of “gee, whiz” nonsensical sci-fi? Could people really do the fantastic things they did on the original Star Trek: The Original Series and later ...

Scientists have finally confirmed a powerful coronal mass ejection from another star, using LOFAR radio data paired with XMM-Newton’s X-ray insights. The eruption blasted into space at extraordinary ...

Few pop culture properties have lasted quite as long as Star Trek. A dozen Star Trek television shows have aired over the last sixty years—not to mention countless movies, novels, and comic books.

The goal B.5 Living with a Star Science (LWS) is to provide advances in scientific understanding of the coupled Sun-Earth system that can lead to predictive capability of the space environment ...

While telescope alignment continues, the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is still in cooldown mode. MIRI, which will be the coldest of Webb's four instruments, is the only ...

The Living With a Star (LWS) Program emphasizes the science necessary to understand those aspects of the Sun and Earth’s space environment that affect life and society. The ultimate goal of the LWS ...