During a typical year, over a million people visit Yellowstone National Park, where the Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a...
A galaxy billions of light-years away is the most distant of its kind we’ve found to date, embodying yet another...
Tithonium Chasma is one big canyon. At a staggering 810 kilometres (503 miles) long, it’s a large part of Valles...
In 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar....
If intelligent aliens visit the Earth, it would be one of the most profound events in human history. Surveys show...
By now, we have discovered hundreds of stars with multiple planets orbiting them scattered throughout the galaxy. Each one is...
Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things...
The smallest known main-sequence star in the Milky Way galaxy is a real pixie of a thing. It’s called EBLM...
Let’s admit it: It’s been a pretty rough year for our neck of the Solar System. But it’s been a...
You know how stars do. They’re out there, doing their thing, fusing a whole bunch of hydrogen into helium, shining...
By analyzing the data from the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS), an international team of astronomers has detected a...
It’s been twelve months since we counted down the final minutes of 2019 and joyfully screamed ‘Happy New Year’. We...
