The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering small planets around the sun’s...
Astronomers have managed to link the properties of the inner planets of our solar system with our cosmic history: with...
The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the...
High-resolution spectroscopic observations of a stellar flare on a small, cool star indicate the possibility of coronal rain, a phenomenon...
Don’t ask astronomers to choose between the Hubble Space Telescope and the new kid on the cosmic block, the James...
Every so often, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud throw galactic snowballs made up of ice, dust and rocks our...
Researchers have identified the first signature of a magnetic field surrounding a planet outside of our solar system. Earth’s magnetic...
Rogue planets are elusive cosmic objects that have masses comparable to those of the planets in our Solar System but...
Astronomers have produced the most comprehensive image of radio emission from the nearest actively feeding supermassive black hole to Earth....
A new method of analyzing the complex data from massive astronomical events could help gravitational wave astronomers avoid a looming...
For the first time, scientists—starting from a discovery by scientific amateurs—have succeeded in confirm evidence for a fully developed shell...
The Hubble Space Telescope’s successor is a time-traveling wonder capable of peering back to within a hair’s breadth of the...
