A near-Earth asteroid named Kamo`oalewa could be a fragment of our moon, according to a new paper published in Nature...
In December last year, the media reported an intriguing signal we at the Breakthrough Listen project found in our radio...
An international team of scientists, using the ground-based Gemini Observatory telescope in Chile, is the first to directly measure the...
A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet’s atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the...
Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets in other solar systems have made a breakthrough by taking a closer look at the...
In a galaxy 31 million light-years away, astronomers believe they have just found evidence of a planet. After a painstaking...
A “massive” black hole (MBH) is one whose mass is more than about one hundred thousand solar-masses. MBHs reside at...
One of the youngest planets ever found around a distant infant star has been discovered by an international team of...
If you’ve always wanted to discover a planet for your very own, now’s your chance. Researchers are calling on the...
The formation of a planetary system is a somewhat messy affair. After a star has finished forming, the swirling, roiling...
Back when the Universe was young – around 13.7 billion years ago – the first stars formed in the soupy...
The Milky Way galaxy has a history of violence. Over the Universe’s 13.8-billion-year lifespan, it has repeatedly collided with and...
