In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed ‘Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first...
Every planet in the Solar System has its idiosyncrasies, but Uranus is, truly, one of a kind. Not only is...
An international team of astrophysicists and cosmologists at various institutes including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of...
As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on...
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead...
Hot Jupiters are exoplanets that are roughly the size of Jupiter, but orbit their respective star at a short distance...
Astronomers are buzzing after observing the fastest nova ever recorded. The unusual event drew scientists’ attention to an even more...
ESA’s exoplanet mission Cheops has revealed that an exoplanet orbiting its host star within a day has a deformed shape...
York University and an international team of astrophysicists have made an ambitious attempt to simulate the formation of galaxies and...
More than 30 years ago the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many almost invisible yet enormously luminous...
NASA has finally fixed its Hubble Space Telescope after weeks of troubleshooting a mysterious glitch. On Friday, the agency announced that Hubble had successfully...
A team of astrophysicists led by Núria Miret-Roig from the University of Vienna found that two methods for determining the...