Back at the dawn of the Universe, astronomers have found a stacks on of cosmic proportions. At least 21 galaxies,...
The red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is home to the largest group of roughly Earth-size planets ever found in a single...
A brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system on April 15, triggering many space-based instruments, including those...
Our Sun isn’t exactly a serene ball of scorching hot plasma. In fact, it belches out colossal eruptions on a...
To artists and romantics, the twinkling of stars is visual poetry; a dance of distant light as it twists and...
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze...
A new clue has just been found that could help solve the mystery of a weirdly dimming star. KIC 8462852,...
One of the fluffiest exoplanets we’ve ever found in the Milky Way galaxy is challenging our understanding of how giant...
Evidence of a long-sought hypothetical particle could have been hiding in plain (X-ray) sight all this time. The X-ray emission...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an interesting extrasolar planetary system consisting...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time....
Red dwarf stars are the most common kind of star in our neighbourhood, and probably in the Milky Way. Because...