Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar system are lava planets: fiery hot worlds that...
Using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of the blazar PKS 1749+096. Results of this...
Earth orbits the sun like a ship sailing in circles around its anchor. But what if someone – or something –...
A pair of University of Michigan studies reveals how some massive stars—stars eight or more times the mass of our...
Centaurs are rare celestial objects that can combine some of the different features of asteroids and comets. They’re basically rocky...
There are many unanswered questions about our place in the Universe. Why are we here? What is the likelihood of...
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than...
An international research collaboration including Northwestern University astronomers has produced the most detailed family portrait of black holes to date,...
Titan, the already pretty weird moon of Saturn, just got a little bit weirder. Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in...
Ancient Galaxies A team of European astronomers say they’ve found an extremely-rare class of black hole — and it threatens...
The discovery of the extraordinary exoplanet LTT 9779b was first announced a month ago. Just 260 light-years away, the planet was...
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering small planets around the Sun’s...
