A dense clump of stars a few thousand light-years away has been harbouring a surprise in its core. Rather than...
Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar systems, in which stars are packed closely together. They are also typically very old—the...
Mini-Neptunes and super-Earths up to four times the size of our own are the most common exoplanets orbiting stars beyond...
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have conducted a study of...
It is now possible to capture images of planets that could potentially sustain life around nearby stars, thanks to advances...
A planetary system 200 light-years away has been found locked in a rare orbital dance. Of the six exoplanets orbiting...
A tiny, ancient dwarf galaxy named Tucana II orbiting the Milky Way has been harbouring a big secret. According to...
A recently discovered object sharing Earth’s orbital path around the Sun could actually be a trojan asteroid, astronomers have found....
Discovering there’s intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history— but what if scientists...
Scientists are finally figuring out how much dark matter – the almost imperceptible material said to tug on everything, yet...
Radio images of the sky have revealed hundreds of ‘baby’ and supermassive black holes in distant galaxies, with the galaxies’...
New observations of a very unusual and mysterious star located approximately 15,000 light-years away from Earth have revealed a bizarre...
