NASA will launch a research rocket from remote northern Australia this month in the agency’s first blast off from a...
How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don’t—it chooses you. For the past four months, Perseverance has...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission returned uncontaminated primitive asteroid samples to Earth. A comprehensive analysis of 16...
If, as astronomers believe, the deaths of large stars leave behind black holes, there should be hundreds of millions of...
A mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope was struck by a micrometeoroid last month but is expected to continue...
Since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995, astronomers have been trying to figure out how the searing-hot exoplanets...
NASA is officially joining the hunt for UFOs. The space agency on Thursday announced a new study that will recruit...
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst...
Brown dwarfs, mysterious objects that straddle the line between stars and planets, are essential to our understanding of both stellar...
Astronomers have developed a new model to simulate the formation of a cluster of baby stars. Comparison with the well-known...
A group of astronomers led by Sarah Bosman from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have robustly timed the end...
Astronomers have found only the second example of a highly active, repeating fast radio burst (FRB) with a compact source...
