NASA has finally fixed its Hubble Space Telescope after weeks of troubleshooting a mysterious glitch. On Friday, the agency announced that Hubble had successfully...
A newly discovered visitor to the outer edges of our solar system has been shown to be the largest known...
A world just over 300 light-years away has yielded the first ever detection of isotopes in an exoplanet’s atmosphere. In...
Magnetars are bizarre objects—massive, spinning neutron stars with magnetic fields among the most powerful known, capable of shooting off brief...
Four newly discovered planets could help scientists learn more about how the Earth and our solar system developed during their...
Astronomers have made the rare sighting of two stars spiraling to their doom by spotting the tell-tale signs of a...
After carefully observing dim objects in the night sky, you don’t want to waste any precious signal on its way...
It’s hard to miss a flashlight beam pointed straight at you. But that beam viewed from the side appears significantly...
A research team co-led by UCL has solved a decades-old mystery as to how Jupiter produces a spectacular burst of...
Researchers have used the latest wireless technology to develop a new radio receiver for astronomy. The receiver is capable of...
On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or, as it is now calling...
When a star is born, the leftover dust and gas in the cloud from which it formed doesn’t just sit...
