Off-Kilter For the first time, scientists have managed to find our solar system’s precise center of gravity down to about...
Mass Gap Last week, astrophysicists announced a bizarre, unprecedented celestial object that sits smack in the middle of the theoretical...
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have discovered the absence of an unstable massive star in...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just caught the “bat shadow” of a newborn star moving — a sight the space agency...
If a star is gigantic enough, it can collapse in on itself to form a black hole. Stars that are...
New Perspective An extremely-distant NASA spacecraft is giving us the ability to look at the universe from a new perspective....
Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that are roughly the size of Jupiter, but orbit their respective star at a short distance...
An artist’s impression of the atmosphere of the supergiant star Antares. (Image NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello) Astronomers have revealed the gigantic...
The first confirmed heartbeat of a supermassive black hole is still going strong more than ten years after first being...
According to a new study in The Astrophysical Journal, there could be dozens of intelligent alien civilizations hiding in our...
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year...
On The Run Many moons, including our own, gradually creep farther and farther out into space. And while these celestial...