Beta Pictoris, a young planetary system located just 63 light-years away, continues to intrigue scientists even after decades of in-depth...
Once upon a cosmic time, scientists assumed that stars apply an eternal magnetic brake, causing an endless slowdown of their...
Once upon a cosmic time, scientists assumed that stars apply an eternal magnetic brake, causing an endless slowdown of their...
Nube is an almost invisible dwarf galaxy discovered by an international research team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de...
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller...
Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology have contributed to a landmark study that complicates our understanding of the universe. The...
Astronomers from Georgia State University’s CHARA Array have captured the first close-up images of a massive star known as RW...
Neptune is fondly known for being a rich blue, and Uranus green—but a new study has revealed that the two...
By combining several years of observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope along with conducting computer modeling, astronomers have found evidence...
A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two exploded...
A carbon-lite atmosphere could be a sign of water and life on other terrestrial planets, study finds
Scientists at MIT, the University of Birmingham, and elsewhere say that astronomers’ best chance of finding liquid water, and even...
Two McMaster astronomers have used recent deep imaging data from the James Webb Space Telescope to look 3.5 billion years...