One of NASA’s key priorities is understanding the potential for life elsewhere in the universe. NASA has not found any...
The stars aren’t fixed and unchanging, unlike what many ancient people thought. Once in a while, a star appears where...
Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white...
The sun rotates the fastest at the equator, whereas the rotation rate slows down at higher latitudes and is the...
A surprising discovery about the evolution of our galaxy using data from the Gaia mission found a large number of...
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bern has used observation-based computer modeling to find an explanation...
In October 2022, astronomers were stunned by what was quickly dubbed the BOAT—the brightest-of-all-time gamma-ray burst (GRB). Now an international...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an MPIA-led team of astronomers imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star...
Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast clouds of dark...
The launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2021 kicked off an exciting new era for exoplanet research,...
Tantalizing evidence of potential dark matter objects has been detected with the help of the universe’s “timekeepers.” These pulsars—neutron stars...
Astronomers have created the most detailed weather report so far for two distant worlds beyond our own solar system. The...
