Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have found a triple system of super-Earth exoplanets around a cool star called...
A team of astrobiologists from the Universities of Washington and California has found a simple approach to look for alien life that might be more promising...
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of an ancient globular cluster named NGC 3201.
This Hubble image shows the...
An international team of astronomers led by Georg-August-Universität Göttingen researcher Benjamin Giesers has discovered a star in the globular cluster...
Astronomers studying a well-known nearby cloud of interstellar gas with radio telescopes have detected the presence of benzonitrile (c-C6H5CN), an intriguing...
An international team of citizen scientists and professional astronomers has discovered a system of at least five massive exoplanets, orbiting the Sun-like...
Many disc galaxies, including our own Milky Way Galaxy, have a central concentration of stars called a ‘bulge.’ For decades, astronomers had a simple...
Observations of 30 Doradus, a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy called Large Magellanic Cloud, reveal that massive stars are more prevalent than models...
Astronomers are one step closer to solving the mystery behind KIC 8462852, a main-sequence F-type star located in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,480...
A team of astronomers from the University of Chicago and Clemson University has laid out a theory for how our Solar System could have formed in the dense...
A team of scientists at the Australian National University has created the most comprehensive map of the southern sky ever.
The Orion Nebula in the new...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular star cluster Messier 79.
The stars in the globular star cluster Messier 79 look a lot like...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has revealed the telltale signs of 11 low-mass stars forming close – within just 3 light-years...
Astronomers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at the Murchison Radio-Astronomy Observatory in Australia have created...
Based on the combination of data taken 12 years apart by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have pinned down for...
Streams of space dust that continually bombard Earth’s atmosphere could deliver microbial life and life essential molecules from distant planets, or...
A research team led by Georgia State University astronomers has discovered some of the oldest stars in our solar neighborhood by determining their locations...
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected dust belts around Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our Sun....
