Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets...
NASA had a banner year in 2022, with many successful missions in what was one of the organization’s most active...
Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel—becoming hot, dense...
A new theory for how rocky planets form could explain the origin of so-called “super-Earths”—a class of exoplanets a few...
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical...
An international team of scientists have successfully mapped the magnetic field of our galaxy, the Milky Way, using telescopes that...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star....
The discovery of the faintest known galaxies beyond the neighborhood of the Milky Way could help scientists develop universal models...
Scientists have used the subtle movements of a distant star to help discover a new exoplanet—which is displaying signs of...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within...
Northwestern University and the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) astrophysicists have discovered the tightest ultracool dwarf binary...
By their own admission, Anastasios “Andy” Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers...
