Some of the extremely low-density, “cotton candy like” exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by…
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused…
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light-years away….
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electrons. A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van…
At only 1% the age of the sun, the DS Tuc binary system shows us how a planet might naturally develop before its orbit is…
Astronomers using the international Gemini Observatory, on Hawaii’s Maunakea, have imaged a very small object in orbit around the Earth, thought to be only a…
A massive white dwarf star with a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere could be two white dwarfs merged together according to an international team led by University…
Mineralogists from Jena and Japan make a surprising discovery on soil samples of the asteroid “Itokawa.” Mineralogists from Jena and Japan discover a previously unknown…
The Operations People Behind the Space Telescope’s 30 Years of Breakthrough Science are Honored by the National Air & Space Museum Through its 30 years…
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now astronomers have used the echoes of this radiation to map the…
When a black hole chews up a star, we see this either in visible light or in X-rays, but almost never through both types of…
University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by…
This image of an archetypal spiral galaxy was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The subject of this image is known as NGC 691,…
When a massive star reaches the end of its life, it can explode as a supernova. But there’s a unique type of supernova that’s much…
Scientists studying a distant galaxy cluster have discovered the biggest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang. The blast came from a supermassive…
A little over a year after landing, China’s spacecraft Chang’E-4 is continuing to unveil secrets from the far side of the Moon. The latest study,…
The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of…
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger…