Titan, the already pretty weird moon of Saturn, just got a little bit weirder. Astronomers have detected cyclopropenylidene (C3H2) in...
Exoplanets are experiencing a stratospheric rise. In the three decades since the first confirmed planet orbiting another star, scientists have...
Astronomers have developed a new model to simulate the formation of a cluster of baby stars. Comparison with the well-known...
When it was first discovered in 2004, Apophis was identified as one of the most dangerous asteroids in that there...
The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars—but how did those stars form? In a...
Black holes are perhaps the most mysterious objects in nature. They warp space and time in extreme ways and contain...
Using tens of thousands of stars observed by the Gaia space probe, astronomers from MPIA and Chalmers have revealed the...
An enormous comet—approximately 80 miles across, more than twice the width of Rhode Island—is heading our way at 22,000 miles...
If there’s one thing our Solar System doesn’t have in short supply, it’s rocks. Small rocks, chunky rocks, dry rocks,...
On June 9, 2021, my colleagues and I announced the discovery of 535 fast radio bursts that we detected using...
MIT astronomers have obtained the clearest view yet of the perpetual dark side of an exoplanet that is “tidally locked”...
Large amounts of gas are sometimes funneled to a galaxy’s nuclear regions, with profound consequences. The gas triggers starburst activity...