NASA’s Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb....
Brown dwarfs are strange celestial bodies, occupying a kind of intermediate position between stars and planets. Astrophysicists sometimes call them...
A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new...
Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that was shredded in...
A team of astronomers has discovered a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation of any brown...
When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can...
By a stroke of luck, a team led by Dutch Ph.D. student Martijn Oei has discovered a radio galaxy of...
In time for Valentine’s Day, NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging...
The collective activity of life—all of the microbes, plants, and animals—have changed planet Earth. Take, for example, plants: Plants “invented”...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has observed a cloud of cosmic dust at the center...
Researchers from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered unusual variations in the consecutive Transiting Exoplanet...
Earth’s supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from?...
