An international research team including astronomers at the University of Birmingham, has just announced the discovery of two “super-Earth” planets...
Jupiter-sized planets can be stolen or captured by massive stars in the densely populated stellar nurseries where most stars are...
Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Hawaiʻi Island have captured from Maunakea the most detailed and complete images...
Thousands of never-before-seen young stars are spotted in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb...
A glowing blob known as “the cocoon,” which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the...
While observing a newly-dormant galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), scientists discovered...
With an eye toward a possible return mission years in the future, Cornell astronomers have shown how smooth terrains—a good...
By precisely tracing a small, almost imperceptible, wobble in a nearby star’s motion through space, astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-like...
Astronomers from the University of Exeter have led the effort to capture the first-ever direct image of an exoplanet using...
Galactic superwinds—large outflows of gas created by a combination of supernova explosions and stellar winds—are closely connected to a galaxy’s...
Technische Universität Ilmenau (Germany) is using artificial intelligence to improve the detection and classification of unidentified phenomena in the night...
The James Webb space telescope has revealed dazzling new detail of a previously known slice of the cosmos 32 million...
