With future space exploration in mind, a Cornell-led team of astronomers has published the final maps of Titan’s liquid methane...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new giant alien world. The...
In our early Solar System, a gigantic protoplanetary disk of dust, rock and gas swirled around the newly formed Sun....
Mysterious structures in the sky that have puzzled astronomers for decades might finally have an explanation – and it’s quite...
A source of powerful radio signals from distant space has deepened the mystery of fast radio bursts. An analysis of...
Galaxies are a bit like fingerprints, or snowflakes. There are many of them out there, and they can have a...
The most powerful space telescope ever built will look back in time to the Dark Ages of the universe
Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope...
If there’s one thing our Solar System doesn’t have in short supply, it’s rocks. Small rocks, chunky rocks, dry rocks,...
Astronomers have discovered unusual signals coming from the direction of the Milky Way’s center. The radio waves fit no currently...
Astronomers have found a collection of stars doing something unexpected. Within 160 light-years of the Solar System, four red dwarf...
Using the world’s most powerful radio antenna, scientists have discovered stars unexpectedly blasting out radio waves, possibly indicating the existence...
Around 100 million light-years away, two galaxies are giving astronomers a sneak preview of the fate of the Milky Way....
