A new clue has just been found that could help solve the mystery of a weirdly dimming star. KIC 8462852,...
One of the fluffiest exoplanets we’ve ever found in the Milky Way galaxy is challenging our understanding of how giant...
Evidence of a long-sought hypothetical particle could have been hiding in plain (X-ray) sight all this time. The X-ray emission...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an interesting extrasolar planetary system consisting...
Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time....
Red dwarf stars are the most common kind of star in our neighbourhood, and probably in the Milky Way. Because...
The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of light in our night sky...
To us humans, a single Sun feels completely normal, but our Solar System is actually a weird outlier. Most stars...
SpaceX is on course to rocket tens of thousands of satellites into Earth’s orbit, part of Elon Musk‘s plan to...
It turns out that planets can live a very long time indeed. Around one of the galaxy’s oldest stars, an...
Roughly every 114 days, almost like clockwork, a galaxy 570 million light-years away lights up like a firework. Since at...
We are, by now, pretty familiar with the concept of the Goldilocks zone. Also known as the habitable zone, it’s...
