An international study led by Monash University astronomers focusing on an infamous star in Orion may help to shed light...
With multiple rovers landed and a mission set to return samples to Earth, Mars has dominated the search for life...
Citizen scientists have discovered a new object orbiting a Sun-like star that had been missed by previous searches. The object...
Astronomers spying on a stellar system located dozens of lightyears from Earth have, for the first time, observed a troubling...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a planet orbiting b Centauri, a...
By performing a series of real and ‘fake’ flybys, ESA’s Mars Express has revealed how Mars’ largest moon, Phobos, interacts...
Debris disks around main-sequence stars are tenuous belts of dust thought to be produced when asteroids or other planetesimals collide...
A multi-institutional team of astrophysicists headquartered at Boston University, led by BU astrophysicist Merav Opher, has made a breakthrough discovery...
In a new study, published in the journal Nature, the researchers show that the planet, which is 31 light years...
An international team of scientists, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate together with other...
Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled—and fascinated—by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of...
The dusty surface of the moon—immortalized in images of Apollo astronauts’ lunar footprints—formed as the result of asteroid impacts and...
