The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds—objects with planetlike masses but untethered from any star’s gravity—including...
When astronomers got their first glimpses of galaxies in the early universe from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, they were...
A citizen science project, which invites members of the public to take part in identifying cosmic explosions, has already identified...
An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when...
A longstanding ‘conspiracy’ in astronomy—that stars and dark matter are interacting in inexplicable ways—has been overturned by an international team...
Thanks to observations by the Solar Occultation in the Infrared (SOIR) instrument on the Venus Express space probe of the...
Researchers using Georgia State University’s Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array have identified new details about the size...
Monash University astronomers have contributed to a breakthrough in understanding the dramatic fate of stars that wander too close to...
We know that the Earth has an iron core surrounded by a mantle of silicate bedrock and water (oceans) on...
The past decade has seen a rapid expansion of the commercial space industry. Rival nations are competing for prime military...
An international team of astronomers, led by a researcher from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), has shown that the sun’s...
We know many things about our universe, but astronomers are still debating exactly how fast it is expanding. In fact,...
