CC BY-ND For most of human history, the stars blazed in an otherwise dark night sky. But starting around the...
Astronomers have discovered the first evidence for giant black holes in dwarf galaxies on a collision course. This result from...
A team of astronomers led by Carnegie’s Shubham Kanodia has discovered an unusual planetary system in which a large gas...
Two decades of monitoring from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea in Hawaiʻi reveals a peculiar cloud dubbed X7...
In our solar system, everything seems to be in order: The smaller rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth or Mars,...
A peculiar cloud of gas, nicknamed the Tadpole due to its shape, appears to be revolving around a space devoid...
It is a popular notion that aside from large celestial objects like planets, stars and asteroids, outer space is empty....
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaiʻi have discovered that aurorae at visible wavelengths appear on all...
Astronomers have revealed the latest deep-field image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, featuring never-before-seen details in a region...
Since the discovery in 1995 of a planet in orbit around a star other than the sun, research in exoplanetology...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to...
Astronomers have barely scratched the surface of mapping the nearly endless stars and galaxies of the heavens. Using supercomputers, researchers...
