Scientists have found the hottest – and most bizarre – exoplanet. Found in the constellation Cygnus, some 650 light years away from...
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Gottingen have found the roundest object in the...
The European Space Agency has unveiled the first results from its Gaia satellite: a detailed 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy,...
NASA’s Hubble telescope has once again made history in astronomy: it has captured images of the supernova Crab Nebula’s pulsing “heart.” The...
Finding habitable worlds is a top priority for astronomers. Many factors define what makes a planet habitable, yet one of those factors...
Look up in the sky at night. That flickering you see from the stars can be used to determine the star’s age. The...
Astronomers have spotted a star that is tearing apart a planet that orbits it. This star isn’t too different from our sun when...
A new image of the Prawn Nebula reveals “cosmic recycling.” Clusters of glowing “newborn stars” illuminate gas expelled from a dead stellar...