A rare total solar eclipse in Antarctica this weekend (Saturday 4 December) is giving researchers a unique opportunity to learn...
Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide...
Robots are already in space. From landers on the moon to rovers on Mars and more, robots are the perfect...
A multi-institutional team of astrophysicists headquartered at Boston University, led by BU astrophysicist Merav Opher, has made a breakthrough discovery...
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the planet, which is 31 light years...
Spacewalking astronauts replaced a broken antenna outside the International Space Station on Thursday after getting NASA’s all-clear for orbiting debris....
An international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other...
Ultra-short-period planets are small, compact worlds that whip around their stars at close range, completing an orbit—and a single, scorching...
Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart...
Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled—and fascinated—by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of...
Researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have observed a new type of binary star that has...
The dusty surface of the moon—immortalized in images of Apollo astronauts’ lunar footprints—formed as the result of asteroid impacts and...
